Word: projections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Money & Fun. Next to come is the California Exposition, a permanent, year-round state fair just five minutes from Sacramento. Opening on July 1, it will feature a vast amusement park, an exhibition center, a race track and artificial lakes. The $20 million project, which is designed for the enjoyment of all the family, covers 630 acres. Estimates are that in the next twelve years the Exposition will draw 50 million people, gross some $330 million for the state-and in the process create a sizable boom for Sacramento...
...that the voters will not forget it. During a hearing on a routine renewal of the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Crane sharply questioned the group's director about the costs of its work, and noded approvingly when he was assured that overhead was kept below ten per cent of project costs. At another hearing--this one with Justin M. Gray, the city manager's assistant for Community Development Crane wanted to know when a Federal grant would come through for a playground in East Cambridge. "You know, there are still some people in this city who care where the money...
...housing, the committee recommended construction of a housing project for Faculty on a vacant 5 1/2 acre lot the University owns on Shady Hill...
...graduate students a huge role in running the museum and the results are often sensational. The Degas Monotype exhibit which has filled three galleries for the last two months is Mrs. Eugenia Janis's Ph.D. dissertation in visual form. The Fogg's 1966 Art Nouveau exhibit was a project for Coolidge's graduate seminar in art museum problems. A grad student made a slide-tape presentation of Poussin's "Birth of Bacchus" and two are now making a movie of Rodin's "Burghers of Calais," starting from the collection of Rodin sculptures left to the Fogg by Grenville Winthrop...
...firms and agencies offer a better opportunity to study the dynamics of change, and in this respect are, according to Labovitz, a "better lab for learning than the university." Research planning firms like Arthur D. Little start with a specific client or problem, identify his objectives, and design a project around a specific need...