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...months the funds, where assured and it is a pleasure to announce that contracts for the new construction have now been let. Meanwhile something more than $1 million is still required properly to equip the new areas. And in the not distant future $5 million will be required to raze the Huntington Building and erect on that site a new structure for teaching and research...
...bulldozers to clear wide swatches of the jungle that served the Communists as cover. They confiscated tons of food and equipment, overran and demolished scores of V.C. installations, ranging from an underground hospital to a regimental base camp. They also decided upon a more drastic step: to raze all hamlets in the area, resettling the 8,000 or more inhabitants elsewhere, where the V.C. could no longer rely on them for information, food and shelter. The removal of the villagers will also make future identification easier: henceforth, anyone found there is almost bound to be a professional...
...Thunderchiefs highballed down the main line from the northeast and blasted the rail yards, then continued on over Hanoi, bomb racks empty, before wheeling for home. About the same time, some 20 Navy planes swooped in from the southeast, off their carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin, to raze the used-car lot; and then headed back without passing over the city...
Soldiers Field, however, does not need 20,000 more seats, and could probably never fill them. The Stadium seated 57,166 until 1951, when the University decided to raze the seats in the open end because they were costing more than they were worth in added revenue...
...Design School will be "so developed to allow for future use," he stated. At present, he added, there are no plans to raze the University-owned Ambassador Hotel, which is adjacent to the site, to consolidate a large land area. "The Am- bassador is such a substantial building -- and its in good condition -- that it can adequately serve the University for many years...