Word: metros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Nicholas Schenck, 87, an old-style movie mogul who helped found Loew's Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of a stroke; in Miami Beach. Schenck's life was a Hollywood cliche in itself. The son of poor Russian immigrants, he scraped for nickels and dimes on Manhattan's Lower East Side, invested in beer concessions and amusement parks, finally in 1919 had enough of a stake to join Marcus Loew in founding the movie-house chain that spread across the U.S. MGM studios followed in 1924, and Schenck, armed with such stars as Clark Gable, Jean...
...hours. Metro succeeded in less time and at less cost than had been expected. "We're probably ten years ahead of any other city in the U.S. in cleaning up our waters," says Ellis. By 1965, he had conceived an other, even more ambitious countywide program of cap ital improvements that would represent the nation's first truly comprehensive effort by private citizens to cope with rapid urbanization. He knew it had to be big to make a difference and had to start soon rather than wait for the glacial processes of governmental action...
They drew up a supergovernmental agency, called Metro, of 94 separate taxing districts around the lake and built big new sewage-treatment plants. "He won't tell you he was responsible," says a friend, "but Jim put Metro together. He didn't worry about the problems involved in creating another level of government. He just felt it had to be done...
...consumed the nation's resources and its leaders' attention. Midway through Johnson's Administration, it aroused a horde of critics from among those who favored his other policies, if not the man himself: the young, the black, the intellectuals and those whom Historian Eric Goldman calls metro-Americans-the educated, affluent, growing middle class to whom the Alamo psychology is as alien as a President who thrusts his operation-scarred belly at the public...
First, we have not yet adequately committed ourselves as a people to the issue of our cities. Suburbs are indiscriminately growing up around increasingly Negro core cities. Distrust between the races in our great metro-politan areas is heightened...