Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that same Buckley estate, students from all over the country who had come for three days of meetings at the University of Hartford-and for this speech. They had taken chartered buses out to Sharon from Hartford, listened to a rock band on the lawn, and wandered through the huge Buckley home noting the religious artworks on the walls and the books on the desk in the library, and chatting with Mrs. Buckley, Sr., who stood by the front door...
William Homans Jr. was sent to Viet Nam two months ago to defend Pfc. Peterson. In Boston, Homans is known as a "right-on lawyer"-he defends blacks, war protesters and poor people. But in Viet Nam, the huge, jocular attorney was too wise to come on as an overweight William Kunstler. He made sure that all the military people knew he was a World War II Navy veteran; he affected a when-in-Rome costume of field boots and green fatigues with his name sewed on the shirt pocket. And he did not advertise that he had defended Michael...
Vincent Ponte is a little-known planner who stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from Doxiadis. Instead of designing huge urban regions, Ponte concentrates on small, heavily used plots in downtown areas. His specialty is multilevel traffic systems; his showpiece is Montreal. His emphasis: practicality. "Downtown pays for at least 20% of a city's real estate taxes," he says. "Shouldn't we take care of a goose that lays such a golden...
...many part-time students. Bowker also plans a special incentive: some bright students may soon be allowed to plan their own curriculums around a subject that fascinates them, and earn a new kind of diploma, a "university degree." As for the problem of teaching C.U.N.Y.'s huge classes, Bowker is undaunted: the swarms of students arrived just as the U.S. produced a nationwide surplus of teachers in many fields. When the university set out to hire 1,000 more teachers last spring, a single ad in the New York Times drew 4,000 responses, many of them from young...
...Slope holds no more than 10% as much as the reserves of the Arab countries and Iran, and there is little hope that Indonesia's offshore fields will prove rich enough even to fill Japan's needs. Simply paying for large amounts of imports will precipitate a huge balance of payments drain unless American companies profit proportionately from the growing world demand for oil. For the foreseeable future, the oil-thirsty world will depend heavily on the bountiful reserves of the Middle East, for which the consuming countries will have to pay an increasingly steep price...