Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-contained community that includes not only shopping and recreational facilities but sufficient business and industry to provide jobs for everybody-thus preventing it from becoming a mere bedroom for an existing city. A new town can be a satellite city, close to an already developed metropolitan area, or a wholly new urban center erected on virgin land in much the same way that Chandigarh, Canberra and Brasilia were built. For social and economic as well as political reasons, U.S. planners say that the towns should provide a population mix of wealthy, middle class and poor, of black and white...
...central cities-problems whose gravity was underscored last week by Urban America and the Urban Coalition in a report that warned of increasing violence and racial polarization. But by accommodating a dizzyingly expanding population, they can at least ease the pressure on America's beleaguered metropolitan areas. Von Eckardt, for one, urges the building of 350 new towns for a total of 35 million people in the next few decades. That would account for more than one-third of the nation's anticipated population growth. What is more, the new towns would occupy only 3,500,000 acres...
Luring new industry is a problem that confronts old towns as well as new ones-particularly when ghetto areas are involved. In Los Angeles' Watts district, there has been no new industrial construction for 35 years-not even to replace facilities destroyed in the riots of 3½ years ago. Last week the Commerce Department announced a $3.8 million loan for development of a 45-acre industrial park in the overwhelmingly black area, where unemployment is running up to 20% (v. 3.3% for the nation as a whole). On a scarred parcel of land now occupied by a railroad...
...Middle East, it seemed last week that both the Israelis and the Arab fedayeen commandos were mounting spring offensives of strike and counterstrike. Israeli jets pounded guerrilla bases in Syria and Jordan. Fedayeen bombs exploded in Jerusalem and Lydda. Yet the two events that may affect the area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change in government may help close ranks against Israel...
...large amounts of cool tap water over the affected area...