Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skeptical of the maze of domestic programs created by the Great Society, the President-elect hopes to shift the emphasis from federal action to private initiative in antipoverty efforts and slum rehabilitation. Even Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who as Assistant Secretary of Labor helped create the anti-poverty program and who will serve Nixon as a White House assistant specializing in urban problems, is highly critical of the way the present setup works. In a book to be published this winter, Moynihan calls the current Administration's approach "sloppy" and misguided (see box, page...
...morning seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive all the way across his precinct to answer a burglary call one night was dismayed to discover that...
...early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration "won't get anywhere" in putting them before Congress...
...Nixon camp as a hard-working but unobtrusive No. 2 man, the Maryland Governor was indeed industrious. He was anything but unobtrusive. In three months, "Agnewism" became virtually a synonym of "malapropism," and Democrats got good mileage out of such comments as "If you've seen one slum, you've seen them all." A Democratic TV commercial consisted of the simple legend "Agnew for Vice President?"?and nearly 30 seconds of laughter...
...snare a share of the market. Urban Systems Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric, is building a project of 100 town houses in Montgomery County, Md. Crane Co. is building whole bathrooms, and Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis firm that aims to build large projects of low-cost new homes...