Word: setters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Place of Sterility. Last week, at the 19-year-old Jacob Riis public-housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated a new three-acre open space that is likely to be a trend setter for cities across the nation. Financed by a $900,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation, Riis Plaza offers not one but four rooms to replace a sterile, downtrodden mall...
...first class is nearing the end of its freshman year at Cowell College, the pattern setter of as many as 20 colleges planned for Santa Cruz to handle an eventual enrollment of 27,500, on what California President Clark Kerr calls a campus that "will seem small as it grows large." Right now, it seems only too small. While dormitories for Cowell near completion, students are jammed eight to each 58-ft. trailer, where, says one, "If you don't like your roommates, it's sheer hell." They file in long lines past a trailer steam kitchen...
...back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias in Soho - and a place on King's Road where she could buy a pair of bell-bottom slacks by Foale & Tuffin that made her something of a trend setter back home in New York...
John G. Soronen, a New Jersey diamond setter, began belting the bottle first thing in the morning. He was still at it in the early afternoon, when he walked into the Olde Milford Inn and tossed off two jiggers of whisky and three glasses of beer. A little later, he got up from his bar stool, staggered a few steps and fell, fracturing his skull against a steel column. He died that night...
...close an election in such a stubbornly independent district could hardly be hailed as a trend setter for November. Republicans nonetheless could take cheer in the retention of Mayor John Vliet Lindsay's old seat at the nerve center of the nation's largest city. Lindsay's buoyant political stock was boosted still higher by the victory of a candidate who billed himself as "a man like Lindsay" and promised to continue in the cherished Lindsay tradition of "independence and constructive opposition...