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...city in control of its problems. Addonizio, who served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election as mayor in 1962 -largely on the strength of Negro and Italian votes-outlined an ambitious urban-renewal program. Newark today spends $277 per capita on repairing urban blight-the highest annual figure for the nation's 50 biggest cities. Newark officials claim an overall unemployment figure of 7%-down from 14% when Addonizio took over city hall-and Newark has 125 federal poverty workers who spent $2,000,000 last year on community-action projects. But the funds...
After 70% of Israel's hybrid corn crop withered away in 1958, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, suspecting that the disease was spread by an insect, called on Harpaz for aid. By 1959 Harpaz had discovered that the corn blight -which he straightforwardly named Rough Dwarf Maize Disease-was caused by a virus. Coping proved more difficult...
This is not all bad to Galbraith, who has the economist's frequent bias in favor of planning and government involvement, and who would like to see more of both applied to such challenges as urban blight and health care. He is also greatly alarmed that the U.S. and other industrial societies are falling into a "comfortable servitude" by overemphasizing the quantity of production at the expense of the quality of life...
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE (Vt.) Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, D.LET. Her energetic crusade for enhancing the beauty of America encourages a vision beyond the blight of billboards and bulldozers to a flourishing landscape and to the wonder of the Green Mountains, the Grand Canyon, the Poconos and the Pedernales...
...depressing brick tenements that make up the big city's slums are a familiar symbol of metropolitan blight. But when they were new in the Nineties, they were hailed as modern. They were well built, incorporated such advancements as light wells, and boasted at least one lavatory on every floor. Faced today with the staggering price of replacing them, many city planners have taken a second look, realized that renovation would be millions of dollars cheaper than tearing them down and starting afresh...