Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Huntington Hartford, 56, can do to tear himself away from the phone these days. On one line, he has been calling several of the nation's loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle...
...remarkable aspect of the shift was that Romney managed it merely by changing emphasis rather than by overt self-contradiction. In his Hartford speech four months ago, he emphasized points of agreement with the Administration, including his willingness to have the U.S. "use military force as necessary." As to domestic politicking, he observed then: "It is not a test of wills to see which party will be the peace party, which candidate will be hawk or dove." The performance earned him a public thank you from the White House...
Coles has visited Hartford, New York, and San Francisco repeatedly to gather data on ghetto children to compare with his Roxbury findings. He also became familiar with Cleveland's ghetto while preparing a study in 1966 for the city's civil rights commission. He lived in the South seven years studying the problems of rural Negroes...
Nashville, Jackson, Boston, Tampa, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Buffalo, Kansas City, Hartford, and any place else where a spark has chanced to touch the volatile emotions of the ghetto...
Baltimore and Hartford, Conn., include in their city-planning organizations not only the engineers and architects of old, but sociologists and 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...