Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transition to majority rule in those territories, he believes South Africa can gain enough time for itself to build lasting ties with its black neighbors. At Zurich two weeks ago, Vorster hinted to Kissinger that he was prepared to step up the pressure on Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Accordingly, Vorster last week treated Smith to a Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality." Evidently, he warned Smith that Pretoria's future capacity for helping Rhodesia will be increasingly limited. As Smith well knows, an estimated $100 million worth of Rhodesian bulk...
Central Square has traditionally been a "family" shopping area, and only the construction of new parking facilities will, Smith claims, stem the loss of Central Square business to one-stop shopping malls elsewhere...
...idea which intrigues Smith is the construction of one or more pedestrian malls in underutilized space in the Square. Pedestrian malls would, after all, alleviate to some extent the myriad parking problems faced by-the Square...
...addition, both Smith and Lane agree that Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Velluci and the City Council should focus more attention (read: "money") on the Square, by financing further improvements there and by staging more public events there, rather than in Cambridge's hinterlands...
...self-correcting. The neighborhood's downhill glide in recent years has resulted the lowering of property values and some rental rates. "They're really coming in here--students, faculty members, and just people who want to live in Cambridge but can't afford more expensive homes elsewhere," says Smith, who claims his own home might have cost him three times as much in another section of Cambridge...