Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to a question from one of more than 200 alumni and friends in the Fogg Large Lecture Hall, Tilly said he expected "substantial dispersion of ghettos," although he warned they would not disappear completely. Tilly participated with Robert E. Lane '39, professor of Political Science at Yale, and William A. Doebele, Jr., associate professor of City and Regional Planning, in a symposium on "The Future of the City...
Opponents believe the underpasses which will be built beginning in February or March of 1965, at River St., Western Ave., and Bolyston St. are merely first steps to the widening of Memorial Drive from a two-lane highway to a four-lane expressway. They further contend that the underpasses--and the changes that will follow--will destroy the Charles riverbank as a useful and irreplaceable recreational area...
...hundred yards long. Out in front of it, smaller machines fell the great trees with laser beams. Blink, blink. The red beams slice the trees and they topple. The great mother machine now takes over, moving forward to eat the trees and all the undergrowth, meanwhile extruding four-lane highways from its distant rear. Dazzling cities spring up out of the bush to either side...
...Small Bites. Once they can read and write, the adults join 384 others in vocational training. At Studebaker's abandoned truck assembly plant, they are taught new skills-data processing, air-conditioning maintenance-by non-professional teachers who are experts at their trade. Says Harry Lane, 46, who gave up his used-car lot and repair shop to become a teacher: "It's like teaching a baby to eat. You have to do it in small bites." But the work is rewarding: "Three men out of my first class are now making more money than they ever made...
...Agnesi company is a heterogeneous blend of old and new. The new plant, so automated that only three men handle all milling operations, sits among old buildings in Imperia, 80 miles southwest of Genoa. Surrounded by hills and served by a wheezing one-track railroad and the winding two-lane Via Aurelia, a relic of the Roman Empire, Agnesi's Imperia businessmen air-freight their goods to Scandinavia more easily than they can ship it to Rome. From their isolated offices, they ring up the highest long-distance telephone bills in Italy. Third-generation Family Head Paolo Agnesi...