Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major technical obstacle is that--despite the fact that Cambridge probably has one of the higher concentrations of social scientists per square foot in the U. S.--the only real data on housing in the City is contained in the outdated 1960 census. Though the City government is now taking a new housing census, for the moment planners must use a lot of guesswork to figure out in what sections of the City and for what groups the housing shortage is most critical. Which would do the most good--50 units of housing for the elderly near Central Square...
...WORLD becoming--Lowell sees the present (the scene of May--the contents of the president of Columbia's study as he re-enters with the police. De Gaulle, the New York intellectual, "this house of twenty-foot apartments. . . .the voices of its tutees, their fortissimo Figaro, sunk into dead brick") the just-dead friends and great, April, before summer, in summer, the old-dead and long-ago-great...
...murder and proportion, saw that the tips of her nipples had touched her toes--a population problem and bad art." Of civilization, power, and Caracas, "through another of our cities without a center, as hideous as Los Angeles, and with as many cars per head, and past the 20-foot neon sign for Coppertone on a Church. . .on to the White House of El Presidente Leoni, his small men with 18-inch repeating pistols. . .while we had champagne. . ." Lowell sees through to the surreal dimension, his own eye "sprouting bits of string gliding like dragonkites in the Chinese...
...will pay $7.95 for the latest edition of his Guide, a 1,485-page, 909,000-word primer for peripatetics that weighs 2 lbs. 3½oz. Another 100,000 budget-minded tourists will spend $2.25 for Fielding's Super-Economy Europe; the rest of the Fielding five-foot shelf (he is his own publisher) includes a European shopping guide, time and currency converters and a guidebook to the Caribbean. Temp operates Temple Fielding's Epicure Club ?which, for $15.50 a year, guarantees the insecure traveler a somewhat phony VIP welcome at any of 29 top European restaurants, plus free...
...broad jump, Harvard's Skip Hare qualified for the NCAA championships this summer by jumping 24 ft. 3 in., good for a second place finish in the meet. Both he and teammate Bob Galliers had passed the 24-foot barrier earlier in the spring, but Galliers failed to place in the event this weekend...