Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointment," he wrote in a blunt veto message,* "the Congress has presented me with a bill so excessive in the spending it proposes, and so defective in other respects, that it would do far more damage than good." Specific objections: an "excessive" $900 million for urban-renewal outlays coupled with a cut in the share borne by local governments, a brand-new direct loan scheme to build homes for the aged, subsidized loans to build college classrooms, looser requirements on certain classes of FHA loans. In sum, the bill carried an "inflationary" total of $2.2 billion spending obligations telescoped into...
...course will be open to selected candidates who have demonstrated capacity in design as applied to improvement of the urban environment and who hold one of the professional degrees of the Graduate School of Design in architecture, landscape architecture, or city planning, or the equivalent. Under the new program, candidates must complete a minimum of one year's study in residence at Harvard...
Advanced courses leading to one of three new master's degrees in Urban Design will be offered in the Graduate School of Design starting a year from this fall. The courses will lead to the conferring of a Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design, or Master of City Planning in Urban Design, depending on the profession in which the candidate already holds his degree...
...democratic hope in Hungary; of internal complications resulting from nine years in a Russian prison; in Pecs, Hungary. A leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw him into prison, tortured him for five months until he signed a confession of plotting against Russia. Released in the thaw of 1956, Kovacs joined...
...rebels had overestimated their own toughness and underestimated the Somoza boys' strength, which included a well trained and loyal army, reliable reservists, and the neutrality of the urban and rural masses. Most Nicaraguans apparently are not interested in overthrowing President Luis, who has been liberalizing the dictatorship he inherited from his assassinated father, tough old Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...