Word: establish
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...million Americans in less than a tenth of the country's acreage. † There are others at Columbia, New York and Boston Universities, Northwestern, the Universities of Chicago and Illinois, two branches of the University of California, and San Francisco State. Yale and U.S.C. are planning to establish centers...
Another means of relieving congestion in the big cities is to establish alternate points of concentration in nearby existing cities. One plan, originated by Greek Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, recommends that Port Huron, Mich., a Great Lakes town of 38,000 people, 55 miles from Detroit, be developed as an alternate magnet, to draw business and population from Detroit before the city strangles...
...mobsters have infiltrated some of the thriving casinos in London, most of England's 1,000 licensed gaming houses are fairly clean operations where, as one director says, "Dad and the family can have a bit of a flutter for a fiver." In short, it seems better to establish some forms of government-controlled gambling and try to stave off the racketeers than to let them proliferate underground. The issue, however, goes beyond combatting crime. Life is filled with all kinds of habits that can grow problematic or dangerous, from liquor and sex to the carrying of firearms...
...Saslav acquired a new title: he is now the Elbert L. Carpenter Concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony. It makes him sound more like a university professor than a violinist - and there's the point. Borrowing a bit of academic fund-raising technique, the orchestra announced that it will establish 19 permanently endowed chairs, one for the principal player of each major instrument. Saslav's will be endowed by retired Minneapolis Lumber Executive Leonard G. Carpenter in honor of his late father, a founder of the orchestra. Minimum price tag for the plan, the first such...
...example of the kind of cooperation now possible, the synod for the first time urged its churches to work with other Christians in sponsoring open housing for Negroes. A resolution urged members to help establish fair-housing programs in their cities, authorized the creation of a church loan fund to help Negroes buy or build homes. And in still another precedent-breaking action, convention delegates authorized a new "study and evaluation" of the World Council of Churches...