Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most elementary schools in all countries do, a French school in Cannes drummed up an essay project on the subject: "What I want to be when I grow up." Most significant paper was turned in by Pupil Pierre Thorez, 10, son of France's ailing, villa-dwelling Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. Wrote Pierre: "I want to become an admiral and command a fleet of battleships ... I would review the sailors while listening to music played by naval bands. I would wear feathers in my ceremonial hat and gold braid." It all sounded quite a bourgeois concept of an admiral...
Ninety-eight Cambridge residents have formally announced their opposition to the University's plan for a faculty housing project on Francis Avenue, but further action on the Shady Hill development will probably not take place until the fall...
...letter accompanying the petition sought a meeting with University officials to avert a public fight over the housing project and work out a solution acceptable to both sides. Opponents of the plan last night saw little chance of further University action on the dispute until the fall. They said, however, that they would carry their fight as far as the Cambridge City Planning Board, if necessary...
...bedroom apartment. While plans for the building have not yet been drawn, architects say it is impossible to build decent new housing which would rent for any less in this area. Yet this figure represents over a third of an instructor's salary. Were such a project built, the insurance company would probably find the University options unfilled and the rooms occupied by its own executives...
...placed on them and rented out to senior Faculty members for $165-$175 a month. Senior men could afford this rent, and the individual lots would give them room to raise their families. Of the two alternatives, this one seems the most practical, for the entire cost of the project could be borne by outside investors. And there would almost certainly be a ready demand for the homes from Faculty members. But this alternative would mean giving up the ideal of housing younger men. While at least one phase of the problem would be solved, the instructors and teaching fellows...