Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard announced yesterday that it has named Hendrik Wade Bode, about to retire as vice-president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, to be Gordon McKay Professor of Systems Engineering here...
Below the Parthian battleground where Marc Anthony met defeat, Japanese mini-tractors now wade into paddies thick with rice. Along the Caspian seashore, the highways are clogged with slat-sided Mercedes trucks hauling a record cotton crop to market. The beaches bounce with bikinis, and teen-agers in Teheran have joined the Transistor Generation. The ancient, withered men of Yezd are being taught to read. In Qum and Bam, in Dizful and Gowater and 50,000 villages throughout Iran, 15 million peasants have been transformed, almost overnight in history's terms, from feudal serfs into freeholders whose land...
...Administration's model-cities and rent-supplement programs are generally regarded by experts as imaginative ways of getting to the ghettos' problems. However, both have been so meagerly funded that no hard assessment is yet possible. Given the funds available, suggests University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade, it might be better to concentrate on a few projects, rather than scattering money on more than a hundred. "There are so many programs," he says, "that there's no real way to monitor them and tell what they're doing. So we end up dribbling money into this...
...many urbanologists, the problems of the city will not be solved until closer links are forged between core and suburb. University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade speaks of a "crabgrass curtain" dividing the two, declares: "Two divisive elements frustrate at tempts to master the metropolis-division of the metropolitan area on the basis of race, and division on the basis of city and suburb." Agrees New York's Lindsay: "Whatever strengthens the core city strengthens the suburbs, and vice versa." The problem, as Columbia University Urbanologist Charles Abrams puts it, is one of resources. "The wealth has gone...
...most part, however, the Workshop has recognized the limitations both of the stage and the dancers. The evening ends with a delightful, foot-tapping ballet to Ramsey Lewis' "Wade in the Water." Choreographer Ron Porter is in perfect control of all the dancers and has them all swinging together for a gay finale...