Word: virginias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city and suburb crisis--a planned model community. He is Robert E. Simon, who graduated from Harvard in 1935 and once owned Carnegie Hall. His initials. R.E.S., make up the first syllable of Reston, a town which will eventually house 75,000 people on a 6500-acre Virginia estate, 18 miles out of Washington...
Since Reston's construction began in 1962, the town has been severely criticized by the academic community of city planners. They claim that Lake Anne Village, the first of Reston's seven projected sub-towns to be completed, is too picturesque in its setting among the rolling Virginia hills and trees. The town houses, clustered around an Italian-looking piazza on the edge of an artificial lake, look like the pastoral idyll of some dreamer who wished that the automobile and the industrial revolution had never happened. Further, they object to the predominantly upper-middle-class character...
...other nominees for Best Actress: Anouk Aimee (Un Homme et Une Femme), Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street...
Princeton handed North Carolina its first defeat of the season, 91-81, early in January, John Haarlow, 6' 7" junior forward, led Princeton to that victory but he sprained an ankle in last Saturday's preliminary game against West Virginia and is a doubtful starter tonight...
...help--in the slums and rural areas. The $170,000 to be spent by the Danforth Foundation for its "study" of prep schools alone would pay for a full year's improved operation of the public school systems in any one of a number of counties in West Virginia or for salaries for upwards of twenty excellent high school teachers in Watts...