Word: projections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING of October 2, in the Plaza Tlatelolco, in the center of a huge low-rent housing project in Mexico City, 1000 soldiers opened fire with machine guns and rifles on a crowd of 10,000 demonstrators, who had been hemmed into the plaza only minutes before. At least 49 demonstrators were killed, hundreds injured. The Mexican Defense Minister claimed that the firing was in response to sniping by students, yet, according to official counts, only one soldier was killed and seven hurt during a week of rioting...
...Sullivan reported that he had been unable to reach a compromise with the developer. While city planners, the developer, and representatives of the Kennedy Library agreed that "they could live" with a FAR of 4.5, the developer refused to allow the City the control over design of the project that it wished, Sullivan said...
...first lesson in Southern life came two weeks into the summer, in Selma. I had come to Selma to see Ted Dibble, a friend of mine from California who was spending the summer working for a welfare rights project in the Black Belt. On my way through Selma, I stopped at the Silver Moon Cafe to get some coffee...
...soon learned about another side of the Silver Moon. When I was in the cafe, I was a clean-cut white boy. When my friend was there, he was a "white nigger." The students working for the project had incurred Selma's hatred as "them boys livin' with the niggers over on First Street," and now they were instantly recognizable on the streets...
Moving Along. For Boeing, which has recently run into some embarrassing design reversals in its supersonic-transport program, the 747 is moving along at a gratifying pace. In the 30 months since Chairman (then president) William M. Allen determined to go ahead with the project, Boeing has raised about $1 billion in financing. It has ordered components from 1,500 prime suppliers, cleared a forest near Everett, constructed a $200 million manufacturing and assembly complex and sold 158 of the $20 million planes to 26 airlines. Along the way, Boeing engineers had to lick serious weight problems that threatened...