Word: historicized
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The most famous example of competent Communist government is Bologna (pop. 500,000), which has been party-run for 30 years. Under Mayor Renato Zangheri, 50, a onetime economics professor who last month was overwhelmingly elected to a second term, Bologna has almost become a model city. The town'...
For the foreigner who lives among them for a while, the durable Soviet people are the most compelling part of the country. Their historic hardships, the sheer human cost in suffering and struggle, give a moving dimension, a unique quality to their achievements. Nothing has come easily, everything has cost...
There are two major camps; those who are worried that New Orleans will become another Houston, big, ugly, impersonal, rich, obsessed with growth; and those who are worried that it will become another Savannah, old, genfeel, shabby, and dying. The two groups are constantly at war and their battles have...
Friendly Structures. Like lemonade, the result tends to please almost everybody. Says Charles Gill, a planning official in San Francisco: "Tenants end up with larger spaces, bigger windows, higher ceilings and generally a more pleasant environment." The city benefits through increased property taxes; for example, since 1970, when Seattle developers...
The black gold at the end of Britain's rainbow began flowing ashore from the North Sea for the first time last week. The victory over wind, sleet, 100-ft. waves and British muddle came on the 160th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, and it sent Energy Secretary...