Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHITE PAPER: THE ORDEAL OF THE AMERICAN CITY (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Cities Have No Limits" is the first of three programs that will examine the nature of the urban crisis. Urbanologist Daniel P. Moynihan, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton and John Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition, discuss the problems with NBC's Frank McGee...
...vacation. As a ball fan who grew up in Washington, D.C., and learned the game by watching the ever-losing Senators, he found it pleasant to be with a winner for a change. "While my associates were involved with more serious problems-convention coverage and urban warfare-I was utterly consumed with baseball. I sat through some fifteen ball games, including a doubleheader that had a 19-inning second game. I was never bored for a minute...
...Goodell's savvy in urban affairs, strong pro-civil rights stand and proven vote-getting appeal attracted Governor Nelson Rockefeller's eye. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated, Goodell figured immediately as a top candidate to fill the unexpired two years of Kennedy's Senate term. Rocky offered the job first to John Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who declined because he feels committed to continue as chief of the Urban Coalition. New York City Mayor John Lindsay could have had the Senate appointment for the asking, but refused to go hat in hand...
...year, 202 racial disturbances hit 172 cities, resulting in 43 deaths, 3,500 injuries and 27,000 arrests. Leaders among both blacks and whites feared that the emotional orgy of those few days would prove to be only a prelude to the nation's longest, hottest summer of urban mayhem...
...Voice in Policy. White political, police and business chieftains have aided in other ways. Wisely, high officials in New York, Newark, Chicago, Detroit and other potentially explosive cities have begun holding regular dialogues with black militants and giving them a voice in schools, welfare, urban renewal, law enforcement and other policy matters that crucially affect Negro neighborhoods. In Detroit, which has only 328 blacks on its 4,656-man force, 40% of the cadets now in the police academy are Negroes. In several cases, black militants have been given local government jobs and other incentives to cool...