Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swan & Symbol. As a result, the hotel missed an avalanche of yen during the 1964 Olympics. With the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka coming up, the hotel's crusty president, Tetsuzo Inumaru, 80, decided to wait no longer. Early last month he announced that the old Imperial would be demolished, except for its 1958 annex of 550 rooms, to make way for a modern 18-story hotel with 1,000 additional rooms. Protests, editorials and cables from abroad poured in. The influential architect Kiyoshi Higuchi called the old Imperial "a swan afloat on a lake." Young Japanese...
...initial CRIMSON news article there was a brief summary of general response to Scarborough College. The article made the point that the professional response was enthusiastic, but it suggested that the response of students and staff was negative and sharply critical. It is always difficult to give a fair assessment of public opinion, especially in the area of architecture. It is my impression, however, that there was great enthusiasm among the students and staff, certainly among those who have an interest in architecture and were prepared to welcome innovation...
...that people in the ghetto are aware that they are often bilked-and resent it more than a little. During the 1965 Watts riots, five supermarkets of one chain, in bad odor with local residents, were burned to the ground, while three markets of another chain, which was considered fair, were spared. The chain grocers are now clearly in the spotlight and under duress to do better for the poor...
...fair number of things done," says Sir Frank, are "small in comparison with the need for space." He admits that "no one nowadays creating the institution afresh would make a library and museum in one building." But he also insists that "books and antiquities illuminate each other" and is determined to reinstate the plans for the new library. Meanwhile, for want of simple shelter, one of the great caches of world civilization stays in semiseclusion...
...students not only feel free to speak out in class but are very indignant when not given a chance to do so. In Mandel's political science course one boy burst into the teacher's long-winded interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine with: "It's not fair. You've been talking for fifteen minutes along this line. You've got to let someone go against...