Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite last-ditch efforts by Councilors Pearl K. Wise and Alfred E. Vellucci, and attorney Phillip Cronin '53, the Council voted not to amend the plan and thus to downgrade the controversial area from residence A-2 to residence C-1 and C-2. The former category allows only for one single family home per lot, while the latter embraces multi-family dwellings up to 85 feet high...
Recalling the so-called land swap meeting between the University and the City earlier this month, Mrs. Wise introduced the amendment to retain the area in A-2. She asked that the land remain under present going until negotiations might allow the city to take over the University-owned eastern half of the Hill, now a playground for neighborhood children...
...York Times was editorially ecstatic: "An inspiring, eloquent and straightforward address." Said the San Francisco Chronicle: "Good for him for having the courage to believe that the American people are strong enough, wise enough and resolute enough to accept a rigorous demand for harder, more intense national and individual effort." Echoed the Louisville Courier-Journal: "Challenge and direction are providing us with a sense of exhilaration, of purpose, even when they are accompanied by solemn warning...
...chase. Castro, like Batista before him, has resorted to promising common criminals their freedom if they will fight. For the rebels, help from the outside increases: the Escambray has received much of the 40 tons of opposition arms airdropped into Cuba; small groups of well-trained, night-wise guerrillas have been landed to reinforce the original bands. More are coming...
...Self-Destruction. In Hamlet, worldly-wise Polonius gets everything wrong but is never at a loss for plausible hypotheses or cagey tactics. Lewis Eliot is only half wrong in these novels, but that half blights his personal life. His wife and his best friend take parallel roads to self-destruction...