Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commencement speaker, Walter Washington, mayor of Washington, D.C., said that universities can help solve our urban problems by learning how to "translate scholarly knowledge into practical action." Frequently departing from his prepared text, Washington (whose daughter Bennetta Jules-Rosette is in the senior class) noted that city administrations and colleges must work together to get anything done...
Richard E. Neustadt has called this "urban populism." To the extent that it appeared this spring, this movement is probably one of the main reasons Kennedy met such modest success snaring delegates in northern industrial, non-primary states. Oldstyle political leaders not only feared the possibility of a President dealing actively with upstart urban alignments; they were also chary of Kennedy's rather pronounced enthusiasm for community action projects and increased private investment in ghetto self-development. Much of what Kennedy said was also directly threatening to rural political leaders who frequently rely on minimal voter participation...
Urging the seniors at the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises to rechannel their energies from Vietnam protest to domestic problem solving. Logue attacked white complacency in the area of urban redevelopment...
Sterling Tucker, director of the Washington Urban League, agreed yesterday to succeed Bayard Rustin as the leader of the Poor People's Campaign's June 19 solidarity march. Tucker hopes to bring hundreds of thousands of people to Washington to demonstrate in support of the poor...
Both the Defense Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development are planning to let substantial contracts to test new technology that may cut building costs by as much as 15%. In Detroit, Contractor H. Fred Campbell persuaded both building inspectors and labor unions to ease some of their rules to help him start a $400,000 project in the largely Negro inner city. Partly by using new techniques, Campbell expects to offer a one-bedroom apartment for $80-a-month rent, well below that of competitive units. In South Bend, Ind., Home Builder Andrew Place has just sold...