Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robot typewriters transform coded commands from a tape into letters that answer questions raised by concerned citizens. To a voter worried about the cities, for example, the robots write: "Of the many challenges facing America today, none seem more critical than solving the crisis that faces our cities and urban areas." The letters are mailed to voters who have given the candidate a tape-recorded three-minute piece of their mind at one of Nixon's 700 "listening posts." Aides listen to each tape, so far have heard more than 40 miles of gripes and queries...
John Gardner, who resigned as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in January, might be coaxed back in a Humphrey Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
Vomit from Hell. The issue reaches beyond New York. Washington, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and other large cities are also grappling with the problem of how to run a sprawling urban school system. Like New York, they are trying or considering experiments in decentralization, and some of the arguments for such experiments are persuasive. Citywide school boards tend to become remote and impersonal; parents, particularly in ghetto areas, want more and more to have a say in choosing teachers for their children. Yet the problem of how to delegate powers to local boards without disrupting a whole system can be staggering...
...front and center. In one study of 8,279 ads shown over a three-week period late last year, only 199 contained nonwhite performers, and of that number just 16 had lead or speaking roles. By showing a few black faces on the fringe of a party scene, says Urban League Director Whitney Young, "the admen think they've done their bit, and the public reacts by assuming that the problem is solved. It's important that blacks are used more frequently in ads because they serve to educate the masses of viewers that black people, like themselves...
...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...