Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South. Cutting back search-and-destroy efforts would reduce the U.S. to a static defense posture little different from the enclave stance. These swift, surprise sweeps of Viet Cong territory have kept the guerrillas off-balance, deprived them of sanctuaries they have used for years, and prevented any large-scale attacks for three months...
Similar woes afflict all too many of the nearly 300 large-scale planned communities and "new towns" that have sprung up across the U.S. Their troubles are a source of particular concern because architects and developers alike feel that the best of the projects could teach the whole country how to surround homes with a more pleasant environment. Moreover, planners consider new towns a promising antidote to the suburban sprawl. Such haphazard building, they say, could wreck the countryside as the U.S. doubles its stock of housing over the next 30 years...
Some centers of study already exist for this purpose but we have made only a beginning. Our efforts must be on a much larger scale, with massive support on the part of the entire profession, if we are to meet the challenge...
...officials are not apt to make any of the same kind of disasterous mistakes that Kerr made in Berkeley. During the McNamara demonstration Dean Monro was enlightened enough to know that if he called the police in to get the demonstration under control, he would have had a full scale riot on his hands...
Originally devoted to sheep and cattle, over the years the land has been turned to farming (barley, potatoes, wheat) and later to citrus on a vast scale. The real crop began coming in only a decade or so ago, with the steady outward creep of urban Los Angeles, 35 miles to the north. As the megalopolitan sprawl pressed at its fences, Irvine's real estate value soared to well over $1 billion...