Word: savely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offering more attractive quarters, has adopted a three-pronged program of municipal loans for rehabilitating existing houses, public projects and private developments. Under the rehabilitation program, it has handed out $1,000,000 in 20-year, 4% loans since the beginning of the year to help landlords to save whatever is worth saving, chiefly the solidly built brownstones scattered throughout the area. Another $5,000,000 will flow in the near future. "With these loans," says Herbert B. Evans, Negro vice chairman of the city's Housing and Redevelopment Board, "we can go into the lousiest damned area...
...graduates entering American University will come on campus in Washington, D.C., with a third of their college work already behind them. Getting these credits required just two days-the time it took to undergo a new series of tests that make it possible, for those who score satisfactorily, to save as much as two years of campus time and thousands in tuition and living costs...
Eliot's report was given to the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, which has been waging a year-long battle to block the construction, which is slated to begin in March...
...than two years of study, the ICC last week voted 10 to 1 to give its go-ahead to the merger. With that decision, the way was opened for the creation of a 7,450-mile freight superline whose routes would reach west to Missouri and north into Canada, save the two lines $27 million in costs each year. Railroaders saw in the ICC decision a far grander design: the reconstruction of the entire Eastern rail system into a strong regional network...
...Prescott's cynical, slatternly daughter Cordelia seduces one of his prize ex-pupils, Charley Strong, and shacks up with him in Paris. Poor Charley, missing one lung from shrapnel in World War I, has not long to live, and Cordelia genuinely loves him. But Prescott is determined to save them both. He pops up in Paris "at his most ebullient, his most awful." He takes over Charley and ousts Cordelia. When Charley dies, it is in Prescott's, not Cordelia's arms, and it is clear that Prescott has replaced everyone, including God, in Charley...