Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggest that Skylab is an "example of technology outracing man's means of control." Rather, it is an example of what happens when unimaginative penny pinchers refuse to permit full application of existing technology. Politicians should stay out of complex design decisions. Either provide funding to do a project properly, or don't fund...
That generation dwarfs the small and ordinary managers of today. Roosevelt and his successors could harness immense resources of economic wealth, political power and military might for the state. The New Deal, Lend-Lease, World War II mobilization, the Manhattan Project, the Marshall Plan, the building of the nuclear arsenal and the civil rights legislation of the mid-'60s?all were the work of presidential leaders who used taxation, legislation, executive orders and persuasion to enlist enormous latent resources...
...bear on the construction of Atlanta's new Midfield Airport terminal, which, when it opens in 1980, will be the largest air passenger building in the world. Among other things, Jackson persuaded Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge to summon Georgia Congressmen and federal, state and local officials concerned with the project to a meeting in his Washington office. There they managed to break through a jurisdictional logjam that had stalled the project in the planning stage for eleven years...
...with 140 children and $440 in donations from the residents of Rabun Gap in the north Georgia mountains. Wigginton, who grew up in Georgia and was educated at Cornell, wanted to teach young people about the glories of the area's independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since 1972, the books have sold more than...
...President himself had wanted it hard by Harvard Yard, and his widow and family intended to honor his wish. But Cambridge residents feared the completed project would attract too many of their countrymen to an already congested neighborhood. And so, after nearly twelve years of wrangling, the family gave up and looked elsewhere. Today, as it nears its official opening in October, the John F. Kennedy Library rises grandly from the edge of the Columbia Point Peninsula in Dorchester, six miles from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive...