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Johnson's Great Society is in large measure based on belated governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the...
If no U.S. metropolis even approaches the appalling anarchy of far-off cities such as Calcutta, Hong Kong, Rio or Tokyo, the worst areas of urban America have in varying degrees almost every ill to which the industrial society has fallen heir: unemployment, disease, crime, drug addiction, poor education, family...
Hat in Hand. Curiously enough, in the most successful democracy in history, the deterioration of the city has resulted largely from a governmental vacuum. The metropolis has traditionally be.en at the mercy of laissez-faire policies-and politicians. Too often the problems slop hopelessly across city and suburban boundaries: around...
Marriage of Convenience. Both the urban and rural plans incorporate the Johnson Administration's concept of "creative federalism." It concedes in essence that the problems of America today demand more than ever a marriage of national and local government. Washington does not have the brainpower or even the manpower...
"Christ-Traders!" To make sure they obeyed, the government posted 700 policemen to keep the bishops out of the cathedral in Athens' Metropolis Square, where they had been carrying on their politicking, and a crowd turned out to jeer them. "Christ-traders! You want gold, not God!" someone shouted...