Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction was about to start, Walter Moving, chairman of the board of Tiffany's, and others, sued the city to prevent it, claiming a misuse of park land. For almost five years, they carried their case through the courts of New York State, with no success whatever. In 1965, when the cafe was again about to be built, Mayor Lindsay came into office. He at once appointed Walter Hoving's son Thomas as the new Parks Commissioner, and flatly turned down the cafe. Mr. Thomas Hoving then suggested to me that I give my money to the Bedford...
...with him, Lyndon Johnson also is the subject of considerable conversation without real ly being an issue. The fact is that a President's popularity-or lack of it-is not easily transferable in an off-year election; in 1958, Dwight Eisenhower's immense prestige did not prevent the Democrats from picking up 17 seats in the Senate, 49 in the House...
Among the hardest-hit symphonies is the Philadelphia Orchestra, which recently filed suit to prevent three of its best string players - Cellist Charles Brennand, Violinists Veda Reynolds and Irwin Eisenberg - from joining the faculty of the University of Washing ton. The orchestra contends that the musicians handed in their resignations four months shy of the year's notice that their contracts call for. The three, plus Violist Alan Iglitzin, who was released from the orchestra four months ago, are scheduled to perform their first concert next week as the university's new resident string quartet. Meanwhile, the orchestra...
...police, for example, have virtually no measure of the success of steps they take to prevent crime. New York City recently invested an estimated 20 million dollars a year in subway guards, and the number of attacks on riders dropped sharply. People were indeed safer in the subways, but there was no way of knowing whether crime was reduced or just driven out of the subways into the streets, stores and homes. The investment may have been justified by the alleviation of people's great fear about riding the subways, but we should be clear that in terms of crime...
...secondary buildings are large enough to accommodate the assembly of services and equipment necessary to provide a broad range of courses appropriate to children in grades 5 through 8. Of course, assignment of the middle school children to those existing buildings must be done in a manner which will prevent overcrowding or racial segregation...