Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This plan, McCarthy explained, would be an alternative to an effort to completely conquer and devastate South Vietnam. While we are still in a position of strength, the United Nations or some other international group could work toward a peace settlement, McCarthy said...
Ekistics. Doxiadis, 53, is the articulate Athenian who raised the eyebrows of less Demosthenic city planners by coining the term ekistics (derived from the Greek word for home) to dignify city planning as "the science of human settlement." He describes his own methodology for charting an urban area's future as the "isolation of dimensions and elimination of alternatives," or, more handily, I.D.E.A. No mere talker, Doxiadis has helped resettle 10 million humans in 15 countries. His projections for Detroit are part of a $2,000,000, three-stage report on the city's future presented last week...
...committee on colonialism, which bade the British negotiate. Bowing, the British finally agreed to hear out the Spanish, then found a way to further stall the proceedings. The method Britain chose was to propose that the matter be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for settlement...
Kresge could also be generous at home. He had two unsuccessful marriages before wedding Clara Zitz Kresge in 1928, made a handsome settlement in each case. Some donations were based on his personal code. "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages," Kresge once said, "I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these years." On those grounds, when Prohibition arrived he gave $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, and personally organized a National Vigilance Committee to help enforce the 18th Amendment...
...crucial consideration for all concerned will be just how far the U.N. is prepared to go. If it begins to appear that the U.N. will take a hard line on the Rhodesian situation, chances are that within the month Britain will be in the final stages of negotiating a settlement with the rebel government...