Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping with a Radcliffe tradition, Lewis Mumford, philosopher and city planner, will deliver the commencement address. Mumford is the father of Radcliffe senior Alison Mumford, who is an A.B. degree candidate, magna cum laude...
...Battle Planners. Girding for battle, the Army seized upon its "Policy Coordinating Group" as an equivalent to the Navy's famed Op-23, which masterminded the 1949 Revolt of the Admirals. Already moved directly under Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor from its place as a semidetached study unit, the group was soon well staffed with young colonels under Brigadier General L. C. Metheny, 49, a cool, sharp planner. Metheny & Co. began setting up the Army line with a long series of staff studies, transmitted first to the Army general staff and later to the field commanders. Liaison was established...
...Park Commissioner Robert Moses. He lost no time putting down the citizens' rebellion, had a storm fence thrown up around the disputed territory between one midnight and dawn, glowed next day in victory as the trees began to fall. At week's end, however, able, despotic City Planner Moses had a setback; acting on a citizens' petition, a Manhattan judge ordered a four-day cease-fire to give the combatants time to file their briefs...
...General "Hap" Arnold, thought he was about to be bawled out for an argument with a senior general, instead was told: "What I need is someone to help me do my thinking. That's your job now." With that mandate Norstad became the Air Forces' hottest young planner, helped map the air-war plan that placed emphasis first on the European theater, then on the Pacific. He was air-operations officer for the Twelfth Air Force under Jimmy Doolittle in the North African campaign. Of his service in North Africa, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote: "[He] so impressed...
Last week Fort Worth civic leaders heard a Los Angeles and Manhattan community planner unveil a bold solution to their problem. They were advised to dig deep into the heart of their beloved Texas to create subterranean truck lanes, park every arriving automobile, and turn streets within a downtown square mile into a pedestrians' paradise of shrubbery, statuary, malls, covered walks and sidewalk cafes. The cost ($100 million, according to some guesses) would be partially paid in parking fees and through higher tax values...