Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Volpe's first actions affecting urban populations have been anything but encouraging. In announcing the appointment of Francis Turner as Federal Highway Administrator, Volpe declared that, "some people think I should have appointed a city planner to the post. I happen to think that a good highway man will make a good highway administrator." Such thinking ignores the fact that highways are now a major urban problem...
...happen to subscribe to most of the points in the statement released by the M.I.T. faculty in explanation of their March 4 activity. But I believe that in my own class the best way to deal with this matter is to help each student, regardless of his won views, to get additional information on this immensely important topic through reading and discussion in the context of the living case study offered by the M.I.T. event. Gerald Holton Professor of Physics
...City. Two men got out, removed the license plates, and opened the hood slightly to make the car look as if it had been stolen or left alone while its owner went for help. Then they withdrew to a nearby window, where-unseen-they could watch what was to happen...
...insist capriciously on 20% or more. That would give France an enormous trading advantage, and force a competitive devaluation of other currencies. As David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, said in London last week, the franc is "the key currency. If you could guarantee that nothing will happen to the franc this year, you could guarantee there would be no monetary crisis...
EVERY INCH of wall space is covered with light shows of various kinds indifferent themes, with pictures ranging from ten foot high shots of Janis Joplin's singing face to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Fascinating things happen in isolated corners with the slides, but these shows are in fact all pre-programmed by computer; there is not the spontaneity and musical relevance of the Tea Party's light show, but rather a static grace...