Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN is the best-known practitioner in the U.S. of that new specialty called ur-banology. As the recently appointed head of Richard Nixon's projected Cabinet-level Council on Urban Af fairs, he will have a hand in reshaping the nation's existing antipoverty programs. Judging from a book to be published by Macmillan in February, it will not be a gentle hand. In a searing indictment of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, Moynihan contends that the much ballyhooed effort was oversold, underplanned and seriously "flawed" in execution. Writes Moynihan in the opening...
...going to rise or fall together," says Walter Rybeck, associate director of the two-year urban problems study. The project's head: Paul Douglas, former Democratic Senator from Illinois. The 325,000-word report finds that the number of Americans below the poverty level ($3,000 annual income for an urban family of four) fell from 39 million to 26 million between 1958 and 1966. Even so, it notes, the gaps in U.S. society continued to grow. "The central cities increasingly are becoming white-collar employment centers," the report says, "while the suburbs are becoming the job-employment areas...
...many older suburbanites and is often tragically reflected in the behavior of their children. Suburban vandalism, drug offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become too broad; it covers Levittown as well as Greenwich, and some of the wealthiest communities have slummy enclaves next to the commuter-train tracks. According to 1960 figures, Pittsburgh's suburbs had more substandard dwellings than...
...ahead toward full realization of our five-year plan and that we will be able to lead Greece smoothly from the condition of a developing country to that of a fully developed society. We expect this society to offer adequate employment, to raise productivity to a satisfactory level, and to provide incomes that adequately meet the cost of living. This will eliminate Communism as a dan ger. In this country, we intend to face Communism by the only right method -social and economic measures, not by police methods...
...researchers. Or if so, the cause is not marijuana but the fact that potheads have done their smoking in dimly lit rooms, where the pupils naturally dilate. The tests also failed to confirm an assumption that pot causes an increase in appetite by lowering the level of blood sugar. The subjects showed no changes in blood sugar, so why marijuana smokers get so hungry remains a mystery...