Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modest Milestone" [Aug. 19] notes Senator Dirksen's opposition to the fair-housing bill and the concern that civil rights legislation may affect the right to sell property to whomever one chooses. Let me put this "right" in focus in the light of my experience, which convinces me that federal laws have become as necessary to protect free trade in property as to protect free suffrage in Mississippi and Alabama...
Last week the cities, which have long complained of indifference at the hands of Congress and state legislatures, held the center of the stage as an immediate national concern. In Washington, a Senate subcommittee met to investigate what can be done about the worsening plight of the city and its poor, whose frustrations and resentments have erupted in a succession of bloody riots every summer since 1964. And Lyndon Johnson, who is acutely aware that his Great Society can hardly stand on a foundation of urban decay, took up the cry for action during a threeday, five-state trip through...
Goaded by Criticism. President Johnson has indicated that, while economy is always to be considered, it is not his overriding concern when it comes to curing the cities' ills. The Administration's major effort to lessen the tension of the slums is its "demonstration cities" program, a two-year, $900 million effort that will provide a subsidy of up to 80% to overhaul selected slum areas in 60 or 70 cities. A comprehensive attack, it is more than a mere brick-and-mortar program, concerning itself with such nonhousing problems as schooling, unemployment, health and recreation. The plan...
...Natural Partners." What seemed to concern the ambassador most was Ja pan's attitude toward U.S. efforts to counter Communism in Viet Nam. Said Reischauer: "This is not a war started by us, but by those who believe in world revolution and direct violence. We are being much truer to ideals that the Japanese people profess than you are yourselves. I don't know why Japanese indignation is not turned toward Hanoi. Why is it turned toward...
...beginning of the summer, the Summer School Administration expressed concern over the possibility of friction between its students and local youths. Early in July, Dean Baird said he was worried about a mixer across the river in Briggs Cage, because large numbers of girls would have to walk back to their dorms late at night...