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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coalition in a report that warned of increasing violence and racial polarization. But by accommodating a dizzyingly expanding population, they can at least ease the pressure on America's beleaguered metropolitan areas. Von Eckardt, for one, urges the building of 350 new towns for a total of 35 million people in the next few decades. That would account for more than one-third of the nation's anticipated population growth. What is more, the new towns would occupy only 3,500,000 acres-a mere one-sixth of 1% of the total land area...
...well as new ones-particularly when ghetto areas are involved. In Los Angeles' Watts district, there has been no new industrial construction for 35 years-not even to replace facilities destroyed in the riots of 3½ years ago. Last week the Commerce Department announced a $3.8 million loan for development of a 45-acre industrial park in the overwhelmingly black area, where unemployment is running up to 20% (v. 3.3% for the nation as a whole). On a scarred parcel of land now occupied by a railroad siding, some ramshackle houses and several squalid junk yards...
...chauffeurs and an entourage that occupied 60 of the hotel's 72 rooms at a monthly rate of nearly $67,000. He was as wealthy as any king need be, and wealthier than almost any are these days. Reasonably accurate guesses pegged his bank balance at some $600 million, drawn from royalties on the oil that has been gushing for years from beneath the golden sands of Saudi Arabia...
High above the atmosphere, Mariner unfolded its four rectangular solar panels and wheeled around until sensors locked onto the sun and the star Canopus, stabilizing the 850-lb. craft in space. Then, right on course, the complex space traveler settled down for a five-month, 226 million-mile journey that is scheduled to take it to within 2,000 miles of Mars on July...
...features that have been seen through terrestrial telescopes or were photographed four years ago during Mariner 4's historic flight (TIME cover, July 23, 1965). The pictures will be converted into digital "on-off" signals and radioed back to earth, which, at the time, will be about 60 million miles away...