Word: sprawlingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went broke, but continued writing and recording songs at his own expense. In 1959, Way Over There sold 60,000 copies. Encouraged, Gordy borrowed $700 from his family and launched Motown in a seedy frame house on Detroit's Grand Boulevard, where his offices and studios now sprawl through eight buildings...
Gazing at the miles of neighboring urban sprawl and walking through the TV treadmills of Desilu and Warner's, the casual visitor to Hollywood will find it difficult to believe that it was once the habitat of Cro-Magnon man. His name was Harry Cohn, president and production head at Columbia Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most...
Renewal. Urban sprawl. Relocation. High rise v. low rise. Blighted areas. Glass-box buildings. Open space. Population density...
...work to keep their huge organizations busy, the major companies are scrambling to put their expertise to work in other fields. To hear aerospace men tell it, this computer-based talent for analyzing and solving intricate problems gives the nation its best hope for coping with everything from urban sprawl to water purification to figuring out how a diocese should deploy its priests. Aerojet-General, principally a rocket-engine maker, has contracted to build two automated post offices, and has begun planning new methods of solid waste disposal for Fresno (Calif.) County. Lockheed, though still the top Pentagon contractor, with...
...town's idyllic appearance, Simon's goals are not so different from those of his cities. And, in the course of completing his project, Simon may succeed in bringing the planning process closer to his and the academics' common cause--a realistic solution to the problems of urban sprawl...