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...morning two pairs of discussion-symposia focus on science in American national policy, music today, some new frontiers in scientific research, and architecture and city planning. At 9 a.m., in Fogg Large Lecture Room, Jose Luis Sert, dean of the Faculty of Design, and three 25th reunioners--W. Brooks Cavin, Jr., Robert A. Little, and William Bentinck-Smith--will view urban planning with special reference to the University...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...
...towns, inter-city corridors, peripheral growth, and rationalized sprawl will be discussed at the sixth Urban Design Conference this weekend. As part of the program, Jose Luis Sert, dean of the Graduate School of Design, will deliver the second Gropius Lecture ("Architecture Without Frontiers") at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Loeb Theatre...
Several buildings will have to be demolished to make way for the $3 to 10 million project. Sert said that many of the new apartments will overlook the river and that the entire complex will be built as far from the Houghton School on Putnam Ave. as possible...
Plans call for the construction of about 400 units, including one, two, or three-bedroom apartments and efficiency units. Sert stressed that all the apartments will have kitchens, large living rooms, and "a small amount of study space." The complex itself will contain some small stores, meeting rooms, a library, and a kindergarten area...