Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting into effect the radical and expensive proposals of the Kerner commission report. And if necessary, the Democratic platform says, the Government must become the "employer of last resort" of those unable to find work in private industry. The Republicans stressed fiscal responsibility and propose to combat urban problems primarily through private enterprise...
Manchester's Urban Renewal Director Gary P. Davis puts it more bluntly: "Monuments just don't pay." Davis insists that parking facilities are essential for the 80 businesses that today occupy space in the mill's buildings. He is backed up almost 100% by Manchesterites, who are still bitter about the abrupt liquidation of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. in 1936, which threw some 11,000 of the town's millhands out of work...
...fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for a commercial district, corporation tenements, housing lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural...
Most impressive of the witnesses was former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, now chairman of the Urban Coalition. "If you are not filled with foreboding, you don't understand your time," Gardner declared. He compared the leaders of the developed nations to "old men bickering in a collapsing house," ignoring "the root problems of this troubled world." Despite his reproachful words, Gardner received a standing ovation-just three weeks after the Republican Platform Committee in Miami Beach had given him a similarly warm reception...
...over from Dwight Eisenhower, he created six institutes in which scholars from many fields studied selected regions of the world, built up a science faculty that won four Nobel Prizes, set top scholars to work on studies of vital contemporary problems ranging from birth control to computer science to urban planning. A more effective fund raiser than administrator, he attracted enough money to complete $70 million worth of new buildings and push the annual operating budget from $22 million to $136 million. He had almost reached the halfway point in the university's current $200 million fund drive...