Word: projections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background of the situation has become unpleasantly familiar to New Yorkers. The city's board of education last year set up a pilot project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section to test school decentralization, which would allow "the community"-the parents themselves and the neighborhood leaders-to run the schools. Only that way, supporters of the scheme claim, will ghetto children get sympathetic teachers with a more flexible approach to their special needs. Most professional, unionized teachers deeply distrust the idea. And when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered...
...that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to mention Livingston in his patent application and generally avoided crediting him for his work. When Livingston complained, Lawrence coldly suggested that if he felt dissatisfied he was free to drop out of the cyclotron project...
With characteristic optimism and consummate salesmanship, Lawrence raised funds and began building a 100 million-volt cyclotron in 1940, despite warnings by theoretical physicists that complex relativistic considerations would make it unworkable. World War II halted the project and saved Lawrence from great embarrassment. But the postwar years brought another. Putting his prestige and influence in Washington to work, Lawrence overcame the objections of other scientists and won approval for the construction of a monstrous proton accelerator for converting nonfissionable uranium 238 into fission able plutonium, which could be used in nuclear weapons. This time, after three years and huge...
...head of a six-man syndicate, Helmsley will take over the 12,271-unit project later this year. The 129-acre community, home to some 38,000 New Yorkers, also includes offices, banks, a post office, theater, library and a 100-store shopping center. When built by Metropolitan between 1938 and 1942, Parkchester cost $67 million. Even though it yielded $14.9 million in rents last year, Metropolitan has for some time yearned to unload it. New York City rent control has kept the top rent on a three-bedroom apartment to a bar gain $165 a month, even while taxes...
...over present Harvard housing to the community would only force more students and faculty to live off-campus and would thus increase housing shortages in the City. (A resolution had asked Harvard and M.I.T. to turn over 25 per cent of their housing to the Leased Housing Program--a project to provide low-rent housing to senior citizens...