Word: project
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After you've seen Animal House for the seventh time, you look for something else to do," added John Gilberton, explaining why he and his Heineken buddies undertook such a useless project in the first place...
...over 160,000 and the third largest in the state, overshadows nearby Decatur. Huntsville grew phenomenally in the '50s because of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Werner von Braun and his associates built and designed the first Saturn rockets there. Due to the top-secret level of the project, Huntsville grew out of Redstone Arsenal Army base--a major Army installation. The government took over the growth of the city and its surrounding vicinity. As a result, school desegregation met with few problems; integrated neighborhoods have always been common in both Huntsville and Decatur. Governor George C. Wallace stopped...
...ultimately more fruitful, may be the timeconsuming, door-to-door work of men like Willie Velasquez. A former activist with La Raza Unida (The United Race), a chicano social and political movement founded in the late '60s, Velasquez, 34, now heads the San Antonio-based Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Says he: "Every immigrant group that's come to this country has gotten involved in the political process as a major part of their advancement. We keep giving the same message: political participation is indispensable to any minority group." Last year the project registered 160,000 Hispanic voters...
...begin with, the project was launched at the worst possible moment: the start of the 1973-74 recession, when demand for new housing shriveled. Says Michael Spear, former general manager of Columbia, Md., a successful new community that is privately financed: "Launching a new towns program in the early 1970s was like asking the Wright brothers to test their airplane in a hurricane and then concluding, when it crashed, that the invention did not work...
...communities-notably Columbia, Md., Reston, Va., and Irvine, Calif.-are profitable and growing. Even HUD does not label its program a total failure. The agency will try to sell off or transfer financing of seven of the 13 federally backed towns and dissolve the corporation that oversees the project, but it will continue to spend money on the six other communities that HUD planners think might survive. Besides, a 1976 National Science Foundation study of 17 new towns, HUD-backed and otherwise, shows that most people living in them like them...