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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unspoiled country-side outside New York City; and he maintains doggedly that recapturing the rural experience is essential to the "renewal of life" which he envisions for this country. To this end, he envisions an ideal pattern for future societies: a polynuclear, regional development of moderate size cities, each surrounded by green belts devoted only to agriculture. The central core would combine industry, residential areas, and cultural facilities. Beyond the green belt would lie untouched countryside...
...acre spread near Montgomery, Ala. The Blounts also have a summer place on nearby Lake Martin, where they entertain friends and family aboard a Chinese junk. Robert Finch, who will be Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the new Cabinet, sometimes sports socks with holes the size of a half-dollar. He turned up recently at a dressy function in a green shirt that he had worn all day working around the house. Says a friend: "I think he puts on clothes just to keep from being arrested." The new Secretary of Transportation, Massachusetts' John Volpe, drinks "Volpe...
...even apparent reversals-in the fault movements at certain points, and by correlating them with subsequent earthquakes in the same areas, Hofmann gradually developed a rule-of-thumb system for quake prediction. His technique is far from foolproof; although he has correctly forecast eight recent earthquakes of significant size, 17 other quakes that his method predicted have failed to materialize. But Hofmann believes that more frequent monitoring of an even larger system of observation points will make his technique more reliable. He is convinced that the future of earthquake forecasting lies in being diligent to a fault...
...recover. Big funds cannot move out of such stocks quickly without upsetting the market; but smaller funds can-and they did. In a highly selective market, says Channing's Green, "There is no doubt that a small fund has an advantage. After you get to a certain size, bigness itself interferes with your flexibility in moving in and out of stocks...
Beyond its employees and its 100,000 stockholders, Fiat means more to its country than General Motors means to the U.S., and Agnelli is careful to run it as a public trust. "In a country the size of Italy, a company the size of Fiat has a certain pulling power, which can reflect itself in certain things that are done in the country," he says. "You see it in your contacts with the trade unions and the government, in the way the newspaper you own thinks and writes, in the town in which you live...