Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under one mixed-use plan, Pei might design office buildings to be built upon the memorial site, the MBTA yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. Income from renting the upper stories to businesses would offset the cost of renting the ground floors cheaply to student organizations and local stores...
...life more pleasant for the people. Throughout the world, Peking seeks to incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve their minds by a period of hard labor...
...Says Economist Miles Colean: "We can't get around the sad fact that middle-class families living in the city who depend on public schools have not made up their minds that they can live with Negroes." Weaver adds pointedly: "We need an open suburbia-not just an upper-and middle-income-class suburbia...
...colored smoking jacket and black leather slippers at home. When he became HHFA director, Weaver promptly moved into an urban-renewed Washington apartment ("I wanted to put my money where my mouth was"), but within a year put his money into more luxurious accommodations ($300 a month) on fashionable upper Connecticut Avenue...
...some author to package them up in a novel. So Newsman Allen Drury wrote Advise and Consent. Of course there was a sequel-A Shade of Difference-but now the troubles have started for Novelist Drury; he has begun to write about ordinary people. They are the nice upper-middle-class inhabitants of Greenmont, Calif., a summer colony 6,000 feet up in the Sierras. Greenmont is slightly more exclusive than the U.S. Senate; residential memberships are restricted to 75. It is also much duller. The blurred argle-bargle of private thoughts is so much less interesting than even...