Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regained his sense of humor. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, he mused about his personal and political life: "In the recent past I suppose I've had more than my share of tragedy and disappointment. The pendulum swings wide, and when it does, you develop an ability to live with these changes." Kennedy dismissed the widely published rumor that he had promised his 80-year-old mother, Rose, to run for President during her lifetime. Nor does Kennedy credit the theory, held by some of his close friends, that he has subconsciously tried to escape...
...town" offers some promising relief from the growing troubles of the nation's cities. Last week David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, urged that a federal agency and a private corporation be created to develop 110 new towns and cities. The aim is to create a series of racially integrated complexes of villages similar to that of Columbia, Md., a community that Chase helped develop. Under the plan, the corporation would raise a minimum of $10 billion in seed money to finance the communities, and the agency would acquire the land. The two agencies, Rockefeller said, "could...
...Pairing the two sites will give the city a stake in development of new communities outside the city," said Locke. "We're trying to develop a new lifestyle to overcome social problems. This entire region will stand or fall together. Today, there are people living in a sea of social and economic decay while affluence blooms around them. If the present situation continues, the city will be dead in ten years, and the suburbs will go in the eleventh...
Candy Habits. Outside Kehrli & Co., few career men-and even fewer field-grade officers (major and above)-ever develop a sustained taste for Pleiku Pink, Bleu de Hué, Cambodian-made Park Lane No. 2s, and the myriad other varieties of marijuana that have become freely available in South Viet Nam. But many other military men do. "Nobody raises an eyebrow now if someone suggests that out in the field, where the arm of military law is relatively relaxed, 90% of all noncareer G.I.s smoke grass," reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "It is as common as chewing gum here...
...affluence, the elder Taylors provided their family with a free and loving childhood, apparently dedicated to scrupulousness in behavior, delight in the natural world, self-expression and faith in the day-to-day goodness of human nature. At the same time, they assumed that their children would automatically develop the driving will to endure the tough, pragmatic grind usually required for worldly success. The contradiction, as a great many parents and children learn, can cause great strain. "The basic orientation in my family," Livingston Taylor remembers, "was that simply because you were a Taylor, you could and should be able...