Word: planner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast among Frenchmen, who have lately discovered le week-end opportunities for le camping, le barbecue, and le pique-nique. And just as affluent Americans buy Pucci blouses or Rolls-Royces, Europeans have taken to choosing imports for the status appeal of a "Made in U.S.A." label. Says French Planner Pierre Massé: "We are running after the U.S., of course...
...triumvirate of which not a single original member remains. The last of the three men who took over administration of the unhappy little Caribbean nation ten months ago resigned last week. He was Manuel Tavares Espaillat, 40, a cultured, U.S.-educated (Yale) scholar and the only real administrator and planner in the original triumvirate. He quit because he was disgusted with the endless bickering and backbiting that keeps the country from making any real recovery after more than 30 years of dictatorship...
...Brigham Young University in Utah, Globetrotter Lowell Thomas took for his theme the merits of skiing; at the University of Delaware, Ralph W. Tyler, Stanford Behavioral Scientist, warned students against "outdoor sports and other leisure pursuits which provide self-gratification but have little constructive value to society." Poverty Planner Sargent Shriver called on Boston College and Wesleyan University seniors to aid the economically poor; University of Chicago Chancellor George Beadle urged his own graduates to help reduce "cultural poverty"; Senate Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey said, at the University of Massachusetts, that those who really need help are people who suffer...
...Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Greek architect-planner and deviser of ekistics (the science of human settlements)-LL.D...
...conceived by George Washington, who suggested it to the capital's original planner, French Engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Pennsylvania Avenue was to be a symbolic "axis of the nation," balancing democracy at either end in the architecture of the executive White House and the legislative Capitol. Last week the Kennedy-launched Council on Pennsylvania Avenue, chaired by Architect Nathaniel A. Owings, released plans that might make L'Enfant's dream finally come true...