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...grew up with the idea of buildings on stilts," said Sullivan, taking a puff on his cigar. "I want to rebuild Cambridge." Cambridge, he says, has more open space than any city around, and he has taken upon himself the task of filling it. Because he has scored one major victory (and several minor ones), he is calmly optimistic, despite the strong opposition that is apt to greet his ideas. Although thwarted in his attempt on the waters of the Charles, he registered a smashing success with his motel (now the Treadway) on stilts over a parking lot in Brattle...
Died. Joseph Cardinal Wendel, 59, Archbishop of Munich, widely known as the "Bishop of Peace" for his post-World War II travels to rebuild good will for West Germany; of a heart attack after delivering a New Year's Eve sermon; in Munich...
During that war, at the ripe old age of 19, I had, as did many other young American G.I.s, the expense-paid tour of Britain, France and Germany. The one thing that has always stuck in my memory is the way the industrious Germans began to rebuild their homes and factories while the dust of their destruction was not yet settled. Let's give the Germans and Minister Strauss the nuclear warheads and the choice of when to use them. The Russians would not be so foolish as to provoke a conflict with a strong military and economic alliance...
Bolivia. Eight years ago, a deep-cutting revolution brought chaos to the nation's tin mines, on which its economy depends, and disrupted its army. President Victor Paz Estenssoro's efforts to rebuild both have been resisted by peasant violence...
...with alarm, closed the Congo's airports to his men, and refused him access to the radio station to stifle his dangerous demagoguery; now they seemed resigned to accepting his return to power. Originally, the U.N. had urged Belgian civilian experts (but not troops) to stay and help rebuild the Congo; now they were issuing strident warnings that Belgians were unwelcome...