Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia, 90% Moslem, adjourns office work early on Friday and takes all day Sunday off. Many Moslems and Hindus in Malaysia are now accustomed to paying visits to mosques and temples on Sunday-not because it has any religious significance to them but simply because urban businesses are closed. The British heritage of Sunday off prevails in India and Pakistan. Japan, which until 1876 used the Chinese lunar calendar with no uniformity of holidays, shifted that year to the seven-day week with Sundays off. Buddhists and Shintoists readily accepted the change, although many businesses ignored it until...
Curry said that he had always intended to appoint as assistant once the Wellington-Harrington urban renewal project in East Cambridge had been approved by the Council. That approval came Dec. 27, and Curry said that this was the first chance to appoint Saia...
...largest collective risks ever taken by the College's admissions office, they are recipients of so-called "gamble-fund" scholarships--grants that since 1957 have brought at least 200 high school seniors with rock-bottom College Board scores and difficult back-grounds to Harvard. The students have come from urban slums, un-accredited Southern high schools, and migrant camps. Their parents, most likely, never finished high school and may have openly discouraged their going to any college, much less Harvard...
...succumbing to a proposed underpass on Memorial Drive, demonstrated this fact to the Cambridge community last year. And the residents of the tiny North Harvard neighborhood behind the Business School brought it home again last month, when, after a three-year battle, they changed the Boston Redevelopment Authority's urban renewal plan for their community from one of demolition to one of substantial rehabilitation...
...with the Authority, the BRA began to prepare preliminary plans for the project. By June 1962, matters had progressed far enough so that the Pappas Brothers and Maurice Simon, a Boston real estate developer, presented an application for consent to form a corporation to carry out the project under urban renewal law. The wheels were rolling...