Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"One doesn't become insane in one day, and Billy's present condition stems from circumstances beyond his control . . . I can remember seeing him in convulsions when he was a tiny child. The spasms were so violent that it took both my parents to hold him while they...
Prompt Arrest. Despite the restraining efforts of priests and organizers, the threat of violence hung like Spanish moss over the bayous. In Terrebonne Parish, swamp-fire violence flared briefly when four men ambushed and shot three Negro sugar-mill workers, wounding them slightly. The four were promptly arrested. Said Governor...
The report, which calls for consolidation of Boston area schols, is easy to defend or attack. Its supporters can point to the fact that it was the result of long and necessary study by the Graduate School of Education. By 1960, the report urges the closing of over sixty old...
In his round, paneled office atop the Manhattan headquarters of Webb & Knapp, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has three telephones, a bronze Matisse nude, but no windows. The reason, says the room's designer, is that for a showman like Bill Zeckendorf "it would be ridiculous to create any...
In this environment, Zeckendorf is rarely diverted from dreaming up big and complicated real-estate deals. Last week he invited reporters into his office to disclose his biggest deal yet. He had just bought control from the Chrysler family of the famed, spire-topped Chrysler Building, its annex, the Chrysler...