Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preplanned cities are big business for the English Government. Ten small towns are growing into old communities around London. Twelve new towns of 100,000 each are going up on the outskirts of Birmingham. Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Now, Milton Keynes, a city of 250,000, is on the Government's drawing boards...
...herdboy on his father's tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if they were human and he their chief, he soon discovered that keeping them in order required him both to prod them along and win their cooperation. Now the President of Uganda, Obote is governing his country in much the same way. Last week, as Uganda's 8,000,000 people prepared for this week's celebration of the fifth anniversary of their independence...
...Milton Hilton. Obote, who took two years in politics and economics at Makerere University College in Kampala, is cunning and tough. Five years of his rule have brought Uganda a modicum of stability, expanded trade and improved intertribal relations. In the capital of Kampala, Obote's modern outlook is symbolized by the dozens of new office and apartment buildings that brace the skyline. Nearing completion is a skyscraper hotel bearing on its roof a six-foot neon sign with Obote's first name. It has been nicknamed, naturally, "the Milton Hilton...
Baker is an authority on early 19th century writers and on the Renaissance in England. This year he is teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses on the Renaissance and on Milton. He joined the Harvard Faculty in 1946 after teaching seven years at the University of Texas. He became Professor of English in 1956 and was chairman of the Department from 1952 to 1957 and from 1965 to this year...
...writing skills of its students. The first full-time sociologist and economist have been added to the faculty. Former Defense Department Whiz Kid Adam Yarmolinsky is developing a program of urban studies. The Griz is proudest of the increased action in international legal studies, in which Harvard is pioneering. Milton Katz, who ran the Marshall Plan in Europe, heads the program, which now offers 24 courses (compared with...