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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of big-city better living was put before New Yorkers. Perhaps nothing will ever make New York truly livable until the streets are gardens and the traffic is subterranean, but the new plan offers a realistic promise of traffic-free isolation in at least one area. The scheme: transform the all but deserted Welfare Island into a development where, as Architect Victor Gruen says, "all that is disturbing in modern-day city life is placed underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Flesh v. Machine | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...feel of his new desk in the Treasury Building. "My own internal thinking has not changed," he says. "I have not had to change my views." As an unmistakable G.O.P. voice in a Democratic Administration, Dillon has consciously tried to keep out of the limelight, worked diligently to transform his conservative fiscal views into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Quiet Banker | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Following the defeat, a large number of islands failed to contribute their annual allotments to Athens. However, by 450 B.C., the Athenians were able to restore much of their influence in the Aegean, setting the stage for their decision to transform the alliance into an empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Tutor Reviews Imperialism of Athens In Jackson Lectures | 4/19/1961 | See Source »

Kerr, one of the pleasantest humorists now working, a woman who can transform the ordinary vicissitudes of life into laughter, expertly turning next-to-nothing into molehills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...dirgelike stroke, as he rides his bike to work, present an ex erience as old as that of the fellah on the water wheel - the quiet desperation of the man who works for someone else. Best of all, he has the rare intensity of talent that seems to transform every atom of Finney into an atom of Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saxon Revolt | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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