Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city planners--including William W. Nash Jr., chairman of Harvard's Department of City and Regional Planning--appealed Friday to Boston Mayor John F. Collins for an overhaul of the North Harvard urban renewal project...
...going to be up to Villanova, a team with amazing depth in the track events, to overhaul the Terps' sure points by getting the most out of their men in the close, competitive running events...
...Jesuit renewal is overdue, part of the blame rests with Pope Pius XII, who squashed any overhaul at a 1957 General Congregation by warning the delegates against "the prideful spirit of 'free investigation.' " Another proximate cause was Father General Janssens, an ascetic and kindly Belgian who, for much of his term as "Black Pope," was too ill to handle the volume of clerical business that the Jesuit constitution demanded of him. Janssens, says one veteran German Jesuit, was "a noble spirit but not necessarily a great leader...
Fail-Safe. Movie cameras have also come in for a much-needed overhaul. In the last six years, the sale of 8-mm. movie cameras has dropped more than 60%, and the 16-mm. cameras have all but faded from the picture alto gether. One reason was that the cameras and projectors were simply too difficult to operate. As a result, the general run of home movies were bombs. Explained a Kodak survey in 1963: "Home movies create a situation in which one can fail. No man likes to appear a failure to his wife or children...
...Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Tynan, who are director and literary manager of Britain's National Theater, decided it needed a thorough overhaul. To thin out the verbal thickets, they called in Poet-Classicist Robert Graves, who made over 300 changes from obscure to understandable Elizabethan. To give the plot a new lift, they unleashed the talents of Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose earlier beatnik Hamlet had the hero intone, "To be or not to be-what the hell...