Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czechoslovakia's internal reforms, Ulbricht may well have counted the trip worthwhile, since he got Dubcek to pledge Czechoslovakia's support for his new initiatives toward West Germany. It was, to be sure, only a pro forma endorsement. But in Ulbricht's hands it might prove useful as a sort of power of attorney that he could use to extract the maximum advantage for himself out of West Germany's desire to establish diplomatic relations with Eastern Europe...
...resumption of Warsaw Pact maneuvers along Czechoslovakia's northern border, that the Soviets had started a fresh buildup of pressure. But as a successful host, Dubcek was recruiting the sort of support from his sympathetic guests that might make it more difficult than ever for the Soviets to use the threat of force to bring the liberals in Prague to heel...
That the proper use of open space is to structure the growth around it. Most people would say: True. But in a refreshing, optimistic and constructive book, The Last Landscape (Doubleday; $6.95), Author and Conservationist Wil liam H. Whyte firmly disagrees...
...should know. Back in the mid-1950s, about the time when his The Organization Man was published, Whyte watched with horrified wonder as his home county in Pennsylvania's lovely Brandywine Valley was ruined by heedless real estate development. He decided he should learn more about land use and conservation. He has since be come an expert on the subject. He helped to draft conservation programs for Connecticut, California and New York, also served on President Johnson's task force on natural beauty...
Another ingrown cliche concerns the value of "green belts" that girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits there without a positive function such as public park, golf course, or high-grade farm, Whyte says, it will surely be lost to a competitive good cause, like housing. In fact, the true theme of The Last Landscape is contained in Whyte's pithy phrase about open land: "Use...