Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working with Martin Wagner, associate professor of regional planning, two students completed blueprints in May, 1947, for the most extensive and far-reaching solution to the traffic question that was ever been seriously proposed...
...most fundamental features of this plan would be pedestrian cross-walks bridging Massachusetts Avenue at strategic locations. According to Wagner, shoppers would have to realize that they, as well as vehicles, should obey certain rules as to where and when to cross streets...
Although parking meters have somewhat alleviated congestion from shoppers autos, they have in no way solved the problem. The only solution lies in the construction of mammoth lots, on the surface, nearby to shopping centers. While working with students on new designs for Cambridge's street system, professor Wagner came up with interesting and significant figures on automobile owners...
With that offhand blow at the statist tendencies of the Fair Deal, Dulles announced last week that he would run for election to the Senate seat that he now holds by appointment. It was a reluctant decision. When Dulles sat down in retiring Democrat Robert Wagner's vacant seat ten weeks ago, it was with the understanding that he would stay on only until a special election in November. He wanted to get back to his Wall Street law practice and to the field of international relations, possibly as U.S. delegate to the U.N. Besides, although he had twice...
...Desmond Shawe-Taylor wore a this-hurts-me-more-than-you look: "The grumble that events are too many and the day too crowded is merely frivolous . . . More serious is the complaint that this festival has no natural focal point, as Salzburg has in Mozart, Bayreuth in Wagner, and Aldeburgh in Britten; this is true and perhaps a pity . . . but what sort of festival could be constructed out of purely Scottish material...