Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political and governmental study Suburbia. The cities have already been diminished by the movement of people and industry to the suburbs. "This trend," says Harris, "if not reversed, will have major consequences for urban America: declining tax bases within cities, less incentive for the cities themselves to develop efficient mass transportation, greater reluctance in the state capitals to provide aid for cities. In short, the isolation of the central city." That need not happen, however; planned development of new towns at the city's edge and a greater amount of regional urban-suburban cooperation could help jump the mounting...
Wrong Priorities. A brilliant electrical engineer with degrees from the University of Michigan. Wiesner did basic work that helped develop the long-range radar of the DEW line. He favors pure research, which sometimes has potential military applications. "How else can we decide whether to build these things?" he asks. By contrast, he opposes university work on weapons hardware and complains, "It is very hard for us to look to Government for support in areas like urban problems and educational research. The Government doesn't have the right priorities...
...develop admirers. One Manhattan surgeon, Dr. Murry Fischer, says that he went to temple more often for Friday services under Rabbi Schechter than he had for 20 years. Mrs. Frederick Block, wife of the congregation's president, says: "He woke everyone up. No one ever slept through his sermons." In the end, though, the critics won out. On the last day of January, the board of trustees voted 14-12 to recommend that the congregation not renew Rabbi Schechter's contract when it was up in June. A meeting of the congregation confirmed the trustees' recommendation...
Accusing the present university system of failing to meet the needs of its students, the group proposed that the government use its education funds to encourage colleges, groups and individuals to develop new forms of higher education outside the classroom...
...some "horror stories" among the approximately 22,000 contracts that the military services let each year. Kaufman insists that "literally every contract is a horror story." He cites case after case of overruns, from the Gama Goat, an amphibious cargo carrier that cost $304 million more than expected to develop, to the C-5A and General Dynamics' F-111 fighter-bombers, which went up from $4,000,000 to $13.7 million each...