Word: flints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were full of hope for the pastures. We were all gliding out of town on the freeways. But Ed Bacon looked at the first seep of city rot and saw the real crisis." After leaving Cranbrook in 1936, Bacon served for two years as a city planner in nearby Flint, then landed a job back in Philadelphia as managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. It was one of the earnest but powerless organizations that existed in many cities across the land before cities realized that their inner renewal and reshaping was not just a matter of esthetics...
...Metal Insert. The answer to the librarians' plight may lie in an electronic device demonstrated last week in Flint, Mich. Playing the part of a thief, a Flint librarian slipped a library book under his coat, then walked boldly to the exit. There was a loud click as the turnstile locked, then a buzzing noise as the librarian was alerted. Even as the "thief" sheepishly explained that he "forgot" to sign out his book, a patron whose book had been properly checked out strode easily through the same turnstile...
...Flint Librarian Ransom L. Richardson is convinced that the system is worth the expense-$6,740 a year for rental of Sentrons plus $4,500 for installation of equipment for four turnstiles. "Even if we just cut our losses in half," says Richardson, "we'll be ahead." The Grand Rapids library, which used to lose between $10,000 and $15,000 a year on stolen books, began slipping Trikilis' Sentron devices inside their books eight months ago, has not lost one of its treated volumes since. Says Grand Rapids Librarian Donald W. Kohlstedt: "The deterrent value...
Last week in Flint, Mich., General Motors Institute, an accredited five-year engineering school, announced a long-range expansion program that will get started with a new men's dorm and a combination student union- conference hall for G.M.I.'s fulltime faculty of 200 and 2,400 rigorously chosen undergraduates. In G.M.'s plan, students work their way through college by alternating six weeks in class with six weeks in a plant. Similarly, the Bell System offers a four-week work-study cycle and contracts with six leading engineering schools to give courses for the company...
PETER J. SCHON Flint, Mich...