Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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City planners see Reston as an oddity, an inappropriate regression to rural Americana. A planned community cannot be a model for megalopolis when it deliberately keeps its population density at 13 persons per acre. Wood and trees, they claim, are irrelevant media for the city of the future. And the attempt to preserve large tracts of hillside is unrealistic when the eastern seaboard of this country will be entirely covered with building in the next half century. "The philosophy of Reston is focused too much on the picturesque and the pedestrian," says one planner, "and it ignores the dynamic, rich...
Crane charged that miscalculation by DeGuglielmo raised the City's tax rate nearly $5 when a prudent policy could have stabilized the rate or kept down any increase. Last spring, the City raised its real estate tax from $72 to $76.90 per $1000 of property valuation. But yesterday the manager reported that the City has more than $1 million surplus, the largest in Cambridge's history...
Miles, a non-accredited Negro school, has a 25 per cent annual drop-out rate because of inadequate high school training. To combat this, Monro has designed a special course of studies for freshmen, with emphasis on small classes and intensive counseling. But the program is just getting off the ground...
...Prisons Committee of Phillips Brooks House is revamping its program to attack what a member says "we really should care about" -- the fact that over 80 per cent of parolees eventually return to prison...
Most players observe a strict honor code. "The loser will almost always cough up--eventually," one gambler said. There are, of course, the notable exceptions. One perpetual loser's IOU's (known to the holders as moths) were sold back and forth at 20 per cent of face value. At his graduation, a number of his friends got together and gave him several hundred dollars worth of his own moths...