Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCulloch was poring over official tracts, planning-commission documents and sociologists' reports, and roaming more than 3,000 miles over the sprawling city in pursuit of more than 50 interviews. To get firsthand views of the operation, Associate Editor Alvin M. Josephy Jr., in charge of the picture project, and Contributing Editor Jesse L. Birnbaum, writer of this week's story, flew to California and joined the air and ground forces...
Something New. Foremost in this design is Los Angeles' cry for more water. Under way now, with a big push from the Times, is the $2 billion project to bring Feather River water from the northern part of the state 600 miles into Southern California. After that: more schools (needed: a 32-room schoolhouse each week for the next 15 years), smog research, a system to replace the area's laughably inadequate public transportation muddle, better medical and cultural facilities, and -Norman Chandler's pet project-more than 600 miles of new freeways...
Last week in Washington a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, 2-1, that FPC, not the U.S. Congress, was the proper agency to authorize (or turn down) the New York State power project. Moreover, the majority held, the Senate's reservation 1) had no business being in an international treaty since it applied only to domestic matters, 2) was simply an "expression of the Senate's desires"-not part of the treaty or a law of the land...
...difficulty: a falling-out, mostly over wampum, among the Pilgrim Fathers. The tourist turnout was below expectations, and Captain Alan Villiers was kept busy soothing his crewmen. There were complaints that some of them had not been paid. In London, Lloyds Underwriter Felix Fenston, who had ballasted the project with $98,000, jumped ship because the Mayflower promoters had not turned the vessel over to a charitable foundation, as planned. There was hope of fresh cash from rubbernecking admissions during a proposed stay in New York Harbor, but even here the long arm of Old World oppression threatened the hardy...
...This," said Mayor Frank Nelson of Panama City (pop. 26,000), Fla., "will be a city of destiny." Mayor Nelson's grandiloquence was inspired by a civic project that is fast becoming as necessary as neon lights for any ocean, lake or riverside U.S. town with vacation-spot ambitions: a first-class marina to serve as a combination club, garage and general store for the nation's ever-increasing yachtsmen. Last week Panama City was about to start work on not one but two big marinas with dock space for 570 boats along its Gulf Coast waterfront...