Word: planner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pasha Moses. The mayor is having only slightly less trouble in his sensible effort to consolidate five uncoordinated traffic and transportation agencies under a single overseer. One effect of the change would be to remove Robert Moses, 77, the city's longtime super-planner and master builder, from the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority...
...most powerful of the corps commanders is Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi, 40, tough boss of the I Corps. A sound tactician, charismatic speaker and careful planner, Thi is the one man in the Directory thought to covet Ky's job. Dapper and mustachioed, favoring fierce badges and gaudy scarves, he even resembles Ky. Thi, who was exiled by Diem after an abortive 1960 coup, could probably take the job any time he chose. Among his other assets, he can count his hand-picked head of the nation's 50,000-man police force...
...last December, President Johnson's Cabinet Committee on Balance of Payments-which sets guidelines for the "voluntary" program limiting direct U.S. investment abroad -declared that Iran was now a "developed nation." Far from feeling complimented, the Shah and Amir Abass Hoveida, his Prime Minister and chief economic planner, took the declaration as an affront; it made Iran for the first time subject to the guidelines...
Most Baltimoreans, who regard their Casbah as a civic asset, were relieved that it would not disappear entirely. "A well-planned city should cater to all sorts of impulses," City Planner David A. Wallace once noted. "Though the Block's appeal is to the saucier impulses, it adds a very needed liveliness which many cities lack. Baltimore should be grateful...
...behind them. In 1963 and 1964, for economy reasons, McNamara also held down the Army's program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form new helicopter units. Most serious of all-considering McNamara's reputation as an administrator and planner-is the giant logistics bottleneck in Viet Nam that is backing up ships and their precious military cargoes as far as Japan and slowing the U.S. war effort (TIME, Dec. 24). If McNamara knows anything, say his critics, he should know about logistics...