Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serves as a cool, quivery mirror to the red brick apartments and raucous traffic that surround it. The 97-acre artificial lake, built in 1905, holds 800 million gallons of water to quench the thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude of the job," wrote Water Commissioner James L. Marcus in last month's issue of the American City (circ. 35,664), an urban management magazine...
With 2,500 enthusiastic union delegates before him-applause punctuated his 35-minute speech 39 times-and a network TV audience, Johnson reminded his listeners of what he has done for them lately and not so lately, including two civil rights laws, immigration reform, an array of urban programs ranging from model cities to rat control, consumer-protection statutes, air-pollution control, minimum-wage increases and, inevitably, "81 months of solid prosperity to break all records in American history." Promptly and conveniently, the Labor Department announced that unemployment from October to November fell from 4.3% to 3.9%, while unemployment among...
...Congressional reorganization, designed to streamline procedure, reform the committee system and strengthen controls on lobbying, was approved in the Senate but not the House...
...that the university is not equipped to handle its 150,000 students, and that the government is doing little to provide additional space for qualified entrants. Last week's class boycott, which students from other French universities joined in sympathy, was designed to press demands for "a complete reform of the university, its structures, methods and pedagogy...
...Private consultants and the Harvard Ed School are researching equally costly programs. But the assumpitons of the city, State, and private consultants do not seem valid. Industry-directed training is more efficient and more socially equitable. If the Harvard Ed School is to be in the vanguard of educational reform, course A-200 must study seriously the economic potential, social ramifications, and political feasibility of this new approach to vocational education...