Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparation, Honneus collected statistics for his charts, then ransacked his collection of color photographs taken in the U.S. for illustrations. His pictures of rural and urban America, with its growing population at work and enjoying its new leisure, gave a quick but comprehensive review of the nation's burgeoning market. In" nine cities scattered through the Rhineland, the Ruhr and northwest Germany, industrialists and businessmen found it a fascinating report. After seeing it first in Frankfurt, business leaders asked for copies of the color slides for showings in every Chamber of Commerce in West Germany...
...almost succeeded in pushing through a City Council confiscation order Tuesday which would have left the University a meek rubble of brick, mortar, and Ibi. He foresaw glistening acres of tarmac parking space which would extend as far as the eye could see, asserting yet another advance of Urban Renewal. To avenge his initial defeat, which came by an encouragingly scant one-vote margin, Al will again propose seizure of University property, this time "by eminent domain." It is gratifying to know that Cambridge citizens are aware of this hallowed judicial principle...
...President Pusey has said that the city showed little interest in urban renewal," Vellucci claimed, "but the University has shown the least interest as far as parking is concerned." He added, "I am going to fine every Harvard student who parks his car on the public street at night unless the University makes all its property available for public parking...
...same point applies to politics. Since urban population has grown and farm population has decreased, the "farm vote" is no longer the key factor that it once was. Many farmers now make at least part of their income at jobs in nearby towns (in 1955 U.S. farmers made 30% of their income from nonfarm sources), and are as likely to be affected by town political sentiment as they are to have an effect upon it. Don R. Massie, a paper-company salesman who is a Republican committeeman in Bloomington, Ill., says: "Farmers used to run everything in politics here...
...both Britain's Derby and St. Leger with Never Say Die in 1954), started casting about for a place to house their huge art collection. They settled on a 90-acre hilltop lot in the quiet college community of Williamstown, because a) it was far removed from urban centers which might be atomic-bomb targets, and b) they were convinced that a crossroads museum might entice summer motorists who would never go near a big city art show...