Word: interior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more agonizingly aware of this than Charles Franklin Luce, chairman of New York City's Consolidated Edison, the world's biggest electric utility. Before coming to Con Ed. Luce dealt with environmental problems as Under Secretary of the Interior. An ardent outdoorsman, he now finds himself cast as a villain by New Yorkers, who have long regarded Con Edison as a blatant polluter. Last week they were incensed over Con Ed's request for a 14% rate increase, its second in three years. Con Ed is in financial trouble, much of it aggravated by a longstanding inefficiency...
...that it could be dispensed with, proving his contention in his famed German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Since then, his low buildings have been characterized by a single floating roof, their spaces divided by freestanding, often movable walls that became the essential unit of his interior planning...
...effectively applying federal power, the liberals were paradoxically parceling it out to a variety of special interests-some old, some new and better organized. It was not the Federal Government but blocs of farmers who in reality determined the policies of the Agriculture Department. Broadening the powers of the Interior Department gave timber interests more incentive to exercise sway over government. The Army Corps of Engineers responded to the demands of local developers. Direct federal control, so widely asserted in theory, became more and more attenuated in practice...
...recent interview, former Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall suggested that "young people may start picketing polluters and campaigning against ugliness." His prophecy has already come true. A new type of student activist is taking aim at the environment as well as the establishment. Though war and racism are still targets, pragmatic protesters are now firing at smog, waste and mindless developers...
...Defregger's arrest if he crosses the border, with the deferential provision that he not be handcuffed if he is taken.) "The basic problem," the paper said, "is whether [Defregger] is today, spiritually and morally, a 'new man.' " The editorial somewhat ambiguously cited "elements of interior forum" that must be considered-which some Vatican insiders interpreted as strong encouragement for the bishop to examine his conscience and then resign his post in the interest of the church. Perhaps the worst aspects of the Defregger imbroglio are its repercussions in the religious life of Germany. For the first...