Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extent than is generally recognized in the poverty war, with its 1,000-odd community-action programs; in the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities bill, which leaves it to the mayors to tie together some 200 different federal urban programs into a coherent attack on blight. Under Johnson, moreover, private enterprise for the first time assumed an active role in the rehabilitation of the nation's cities
...average. (By C.Q.'s reckoning, Dwight Eisenhower batted 46%, John F. Kennedy only 39%.) But in 1967, Johnson was defeated on his tax-surcharge, civil rights, anticrime, East-West trade and legislative-reorganization bills. Foreign aid was cut by a record $1 billion, poverty funds by $300 million, model cities by $350 million. The rent-supplements program was practically shrunk out of existence from $40 million to $10 million. Despite Congress' fractious mood, however, Johnson did get a number of other bills past Capitol Hill's axmen, most notably: expanded air-pollution control, a consular treaty with Moscow, an outer...
Residents of Cambridge's model neighborhood last night took the first tentative steps toward creating the agency which will run the model cities program...
Some 150 residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area near Central Square--attended a mass meeting to discuss plans for the election of representatives to the City Demonstration Agency--the board which will operate the program. Last spring, the City Council guaranteed residents of the model neighborhood a majority on the agency...
...City has scheduled a series of such meetings throughout the month, to be followed by a convention which will set up the plans for the elections. After a referendum on the convention's results, the City Council will pass the ordinance creating the model cities agency. Election of the neighborhood representatives on the agency will follow...