Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...architectural historians as well. New Haven, Conn., under the farsighted command of Mayor Richard C. Lee, has leaned heavily on the ideas of top urbanologists to organize community schools, revitalize a dying downtown area and yet preserve as much as possible of the old neighborhoods' historical character. Detroit, under Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, has created a "Human Resources Development" program, budgeted at $27 million this year, to provide adult and youth employment centers, medical clinics, neighborhood youth corps, and to aid small-business development in poor areas...
Another means of relieving congestion in the big cities is to establish alternate points of concentration in nearby existing cities. One plan, originated by Greek Planner Constantinos Doxiadis, recommends that Port Huron, Mich., a Great Lakes town of 38,000 people, 55 miles from Detroit, be developed as an alternate magnet, to draw business and population from Detroit before the city strangles...
...been started in the past 2? years, bringing the total number of papers to 171. Many are making a profit. There are only two dailies: the aggressive Chicago Defender (circ. 32,000) and the conservative Atlanta Daily World (circ. 20,000). The New York Amsterdam News (72,400) and Detroit's Michigan Chronicle (48,300) are the largest weeklies and among the best...
...dire straits; the House has refused to enact legislation designed to protect civil rights workers; it has cut back the model cities program by $425 million; and it has denied funds for rent supplements. President Johnson says Vietnam should have top priority. Congress agrees. But Newark and Detroit tell a different story...
There were smiles and handshakes all around before Reuther got down to business. Taking more than three hours to make his case at General Motors, and almost as long at Ford and Chrysler, the U.A.W. president outlined the most ambitious list of labor demands Detroit has ever seen. With contracts due to expire Sept. 6, the auto industry faces arduous bargaining that could set the pattern for upcoming labor negotiations across the U.S. The fact that Detroit is girding for the worst -local banks report stepped-up savings deposits by strike-wary workers-suggests what the pattern...