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...uniform standards. He urged matching federal grants for the construction of city water and sewerage systems, direct financial aid for cities trying to acquire land for future development, special grants to cities for landscaping, tree planting, park improvement "and other measures to bring beauty and nature to the city dweller." He also asked for continuation of the public-housing program, at the rate of 35,000 new units a year, and an increase in the federal outlay for urban renewal to $750 million annually by 1968, with an accompanying shift in emphasis from business and industrial districts to residential neighborhoods...
...department store. Bacon personally visited 13 public schools and encouraged schoolchildren to work up models of how they would like their local district to look. Result was a climate of enthusiasm for improvement and change that ranged through the whole community, from self-interested businessman to self-interested slum dweller...
...life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Congressional failure to implement this left the Court as the only forum for vast social complaints-the Negro's demand for justice, the city dweller's cry for equal representation, the growth of Government power that stirs concern for individualism and the very quality of U.S. life...
...typical catalogue buyer in 1964 is an urban dweller, shops by telephone rather than by mail or drops in at special catalogue stores that deliver merchandise quickly from a central warehouse. The customer profits by lower prices and a wider selection than most stores can offer, and companies are attracted to catalogue selling by the saving in inventory, rent and labor costs. A company expects to glean an average of $35 in sales from each big book, which costs $2 to produce and may contain as many as 140,000 items-from a Mexican burro to the 1928 Model...
When he finally does go to bed and tries to sleep, the city dweller has to contend with the incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...