Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radical, more tuned in, turned on and dropped out than the last. How about the class of 1973? Last week TIME correspondents sought the answer in random interviews with 130 freshmen on 14 representative campuses.* If their views accurately reflect the general freshman mood this fall, the truism holds firm...
Student Deferment. Detroit's James Lafferty, 31, claims that any good lawyer can block a client's induction for at least two years. His firm of Lafferty, Reosti, Jabara, Papakhian, James & Stickgold has already handled 700 draft cases, although it is less than a year old. Milwaukee Draft Lawyer Harry Peck, 34, says: "A person who follows my advice and works hard on developing his case is probably going to stay out of the Army." Los Angeles Attorney William Smith, 36, who is an ex-Air Force captain, claims that if a boy and his parents can afford...
Matching Capability. Though McHarg is only one of several such pioneers, he is now the nation's most visible apostle of using ecology for planning-and turning a profit in the broadest sense. As an example, his book describes how his firm planned a scenic highway on New York City's increasingly squandered Staten Island. To find the best route, he mapped every physical and social feature in the area, in-eluding slopes, soil foundations, forests, scenic and residential values...
...three years and picked up a case of tuberculosis. As a noted Scottish city planner, he was invited in 1954 by the University of Pennsylvania to found the first American department of landscape architecture and regional planning. He now teaches at Penn, is a partner in a planning firm and preaches what he practices all over...
...beauty: his plan concentrated all developments on hills and plateaus, leaving the valleys open forever. Endorsed by landowners and the city, the scheme opens the area to 83,000 new residents by 1990 -without helter-skelter destruction of the rolling countryside. Going on from there, McHarg's firm recently completed another enlightened development plan for the seven counties around the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul...