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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between meetings, the two Presidents entertained each other at local night clubs (the only facilities available for big-scale entertaining), were joined on one occasion by Britain's former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who is visiting Acapulco for his health. President Eisenhower got the full tourist treatment: brilliant fireworks, high-diving exhibitions, exotic Aztec dances, a high-style water-skiing show...
...limits. ¶ Reduction of commercial acreage by almost 50%, with emphasis on unsightly and inconvenient "ribbon" business districts lining block after block of arterial streets in residential neighborhoods. ¶ Better zoning for the needs of heavy industry to keep scattered houses out of scarce plots more suitable for large-scale, big tax-paying plants. ¶ An increase of off-street parking facilities for New York's 1,500,000 vehicles; new apartment houses would have to provide more garage space, new commercial buildings would have to provide off-street parking. Exceptions: in business districts in downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan...
...lucky $25 bond holder can win as much as $100,000 if his number comes up. If not he can cash it in on a graduated scale: from 50% of its face value after one year to 110% after...
Rocky Ground. For each work he spends months in research, more months in building up a mathematically scaled clay model, still more months at the easel or on the scaffold. A minute error can be heartbreaking. In a recent scale model, Benton had painted a birchbark canoe being set on the ground by a group of Indians. "People looking at it would ask right off what kind of damn fool Indians would be dragging a birchbark canoe across rocky ground. That changed the mural's entire design and set me back weeks. I had to do the model...
Mental development of the Harvard undergraduate will be the subject of a significantly large-scale study by University psychologists and sociologists, provided that a preliminary study of methodology is successful...