Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weaves through almost all of Mumford's 50 years of prodigious writing on man and his social environment. Mumford remarks philosophically that he's a "rare bird." He may be rarer than he thinks: a kind of latter-day Thoreau, trying to make sense of the twentieth century and plan for the twenty-first...
...encouraging to see how far the committee went in its proposals. The plan Rosovsky offers is no mere sop designed to co-opt student protest. Instead of merely suggesting minimal expansion in course offerings, the committee proposes a farreaching program aimed at remedying Harvard's academic deficits and at repairing some of the grotesque problems of black student life here. The plan will not solve all the problems, but it will make a start. The Faculty should approve it next week...
...residents would pay off through modest increases in real estate taxes. All minorities. Something else came of all the careful preparation. The people of King County discovered a new sense of commitment. "From the beginning," says Ellis, "Forward Thrust rejected the idea of compulsion, as implied in a plan imposed from above. Communities can never be compelled to do anything they don't want to do. There has to be some element of civic involvement...
...Arab world, the Soviet proposal met with mixed reactions. Syria and Iraq oppose the plan, as do the El Fatah commandos. Other Arabs, however, seem considerably more interested. Lebanon and Jordan indicated at least tacit approval of the Soviet initiative and Egypt hinted that it might go along as well...
Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, deputy secretary of state, acts as an informal link between L'Osservatore and Pope Paul. Benelli meets twice a week with the current editor in chief, Raimondo Manzini, 67, to plan articles for the paper, and consults the Pope on major points of editorial policy. Paul himself maintains a close personal relationship with L'Osservatore. He occasionally telephones Manzini, and sometimes reads proof on exceptionally important stories. When doing so, the Pope makes corrections in red ink and adds his personal comments, also in red ink, in the margins...