Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Saigon, thriving new villages testify to Diem's success (with massive U.S. financial help) in the tremendous job of resettling 900,000 refugees from the Communist North. In the Great Caisan project, 40,000 refugees were hard at work reclaiming abandoned paddies, each family working on its own three hectares with its own government-supplied water buffalo; two years ago the refugees' only interest was in how soon they could move on to somewhere else...
...Build a Boat? Then there is the case of ten-year-old Billy, who today would be in the sixth grade but in Caudill's future school is in something called the 27th Self-Improvement Level. Billy and his dad, it seems, want to build a boat. "A project is set up which involves much subject matter-reading, writing, spelling, science, mathematics, and even music-based on the theme, 'Making a boat.' " Finally a Learning Lab is prepared, and when dad's vacation rolls around, he joins his son-and possibly his daughter...
What Mayor Hynes was cheering about was the unveiling last week of a mammoth project that will cost some $100 million and, on completion in 1962, will spread over twice as big an area as Manhattan's famed Rockefeller Center. The builder: Prudential Insurance Co. of America, second biggest U.S. insurance company (after Metropolitan Life...
...money offered by the Ford Foundation would be used to construct a new wing, connected to Langdell Hall by a bridge, which would house the International Legal Studies project. The present arrangement, with the Studies in Langdell, has resulted in overcrowding in that building...
Funds raised by the Law School would be employed in the construction of a special dormitory to house the students, both American and foreign, participating in the project. The dormitory, according to the Dean's report, "might house about 80 students, and could be located on Massachusetts Avenue in the space now occupied by Kendall House and Chancelry Club...