Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both objections are important, but neither should pose an insurmountable obstacle to the amendment and Cambridge Plaza. The City could and should require that any developers seeking to take advantage of this amendment apply for a special permit. This will assure that developments proposed for other sites will be considered on their particular merits...
...assure that the design of the Cambridge Plaza will be aesthetically pleasing, the council should require assurances from the developer that his architect will work with Pei on the design of the plaza. If possible, the assurances should be supported by a performance bond or an agreement enforceable in the courts...
After taking the appropriate safeguards, the council should pass the zoning amendment. Cambridge Plaza as now envisioned will be a welcome addition to the Square...
During two months of orderly demonstrations in Zocalo, the central plaza opposite Diaz Ordaz's mansion, the students made four demands: that the government disband the granaderos, dismiss Mexico City's police chief, release all so-called political prisoners, and revoke an antisubversion clause in the penal code. The government promised to re-examine the law, but otherwise remained aloof. Mexico's press blamed the riots on "Communist agitators," but the demonstrations seemed more to reflect the influence of an activist New Left. Increasingly, the students threatened to "stop the Olympics," and directed their attacks against Diaz...
...love, sex and marriage always contain a slight element of the sadistic. What is often pure misery for the participants is pure merriment for the spectator. Watching other people go through hell seems to be fun. At least it is in Lovers and Other Strangers, a sort of diminutive Plaza Suite that consists of four diverting playlets not overly witty or wise but foaming with gentle laughter...