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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swimming discussion centered on the architects' investigation of the Harvard Observatory and Soldiers' Field as possible sites for a competitive Olympic pool and basketball complex. The first site is now considered too cramped. Radcliffe has emphasized that the Radcliffe pool should be improved for noncompetitive...
...disaster at Medûm, Mendelssohn is convinced, caused consternation 30 miles away at Dahshûr, the site of the so-called Bent Pyramid. Some scholars have suggested that the Bent Pyramid's strange shape (its sides start up at an angle of 52°, but halfway to the top the slope changes abruptly to a more gentle 43½°) was brought about by the premature death of the pharaoh, which forced the workers to hasten completion of the pyramid. Mendelssohn, however, believes that the builders at Dahshûr, hearing of the avalanche...
...charges of racial bias stem from Gimbel's alleged refusal to live up to an agreement made with Harlem Fight Back to institute an on-the-job training program for black and Puerto Rican workers at the construction site of a new Gimbels store located at 86th Street and Lexington Ave, in New York City...
Most Mayday regional groups arrived at their target areas in small affinity groups at about 6 a.m. yesterday, hoping to stop traffic at 12 key intersections and bridges. However, police and federal troops awaited them at each site, and turned demonstrators back toward the downtown area...
...most basic step would be to change the structure of the tax. Realty taxes are a fusion of two separate levies -one on the value of locations and the other on buildings. Most cities collect two or three times as much tax from buildings as from the site value of land. This low taxation of land re wards speculators, who can easily afford to keep property off the market until urban growth forces its price up enough for a fat profit. A costly consequence of this is "suburban sprawl," much of which is caused by subdivision developers moving farther...