Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS CORRESPONDENTS REPORT-PART I (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid is moderator as Charles Collingwood, David Culhane, Richard C. Hottelet, Marvin Kalb, Peter Kalischer and Morley Safer review the major events of 1968 and the prospects...
Adulterated Efforts. As an Assistant Under Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy-Johnson Administration and author of the controversial Moynihan Report, which infuriated many black leaders with its study of the Negro family's plight, he played an important role in creating programs that were adopted by the Great Society. Unhappy with what has become of them, he charges that the efforts were all too often adulterated by politicians, "middleclass professional reformers, elite academics and intellectuals...
...going to rise or fall together," says Walter Rybeck, associate director of the two-year urban problems study. The project's head: Paul Douglas, former Democratic Senator from Illinois. The 325,000-word report finds that the number of Americans below the poverty level ($3,000 annual income for an urban family of four) fell from 39 million to 26 million between 1958 and 1966. Even so, it notes, the gaps in U.S. society continued to grow. "The central cities increasingly are becoming white-collar employment centers," the report says, "while the suburbs are becoming the job-employment areas...
...central cities may lose 2.5 million white residents by 1985, dropping to 45.4 million, while the nonwhite population may nearly double to 20.1 million. The report somberly points out that such a concentration of Negroes could result in "a further polarization of blacks and whites, and the flight of more and more businesses, and therefore jobs, from the city. The suicidal consequences that such a possibility suggests are not pleasant to contemplate...
...cities are ever to become strong enough to reverse this trend toward polarization and cope with their other difficulties, the Douglas report argues, overlapping local governments must be simplified and streamlined. There is now an average of 90 separate units of government for each urban area in the U.S. with more than 50,000 people; metropolitan Chicago has a paralyzing total of 1,113. Building codes and zoning regulations are confusing, often contradictory. Adequate housing is still a chimera for most urban low-income families (and increasingly so for the middle class as well...