Word: metropolitanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more hopeful planters and renters than available plots. Low-income families are often given priority, since the savings on food bills from a 15-ft. by 25-ft. garden can reach $250 a year. Atlanta has 150 acres, divided into 20-ft. by 30-ft. plots, scattered in its metropolitan area in a program that will reach an estimated 8,000 people this year. In Louisville, one government-sponsored garden project leased 175 of its 250 plots in just two hours on opening day. For $20 a season, more luxurious Louisville sharecroppers get 40-ft. by 100-ft. lots...
...court to decide otherwise. The court noted that HUD had violated the blacks' basic constitutional rights in the first place by helping to confine them to segregated housing within Chicago's city limits. The housing plan, said the Justices, should have included the entire Chicago metropolitan area instead of just the city. Ordering HUD to put low-cost housing in the suburbs would not restrict the freedom of local governments, the court ruled further, since the suburbs would still be able to exercise all their powers regarding zoning requirements and other land-use restrictions...
Robert Merrill, the Metropolitan Opera singer did the national anthem, and Bobby Richardson, the nimble second baseman of the early sixties talked about Jesus Christ. Next the new Yankees took the field against the Minnesota Twins. They hit the ball all over the new park, beat back a 4-0 deficit and won the game 11-4. George Steinbrenner told the newspapers that he wanted to see 100,000 people in his new park by the end of the three game series. He got his wish...
Tomorrow's closing is the first of a four-Sunday trial program proposed by the People for Riverbend Park, a Cambridge citizens group, and approved by the Metropolitan District Commission...
...site will probably be divided into three sections: a five-acre Kennedy Memorial park to be built by the Metropolitan District Commission, a four-acre parcel for commercial development, and at least 2.2 acres for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Institute of Politics...