Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dollars needed to start the program in 1970. As months passed, the hunger question became a prickly issue in the White House. Some advisers sided with Presidential Counselor Arthur Burns, who opposed any attack on hunger this year. Others agreed with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Assistant to the President on Urban Affairs, who sees the program as a first step in redesigning the entire welfare system...
...Francisco takes place in the Haight-Ashbury district. Many straight commuters endure hazardous journeys daily as they try to maneuver through stationary streams of traffic heading for Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito or suburbs beyond. Unique in many other respects, the San Francisco Bay Area suffers from the prevalent urban malady of too many automobiles, too few highway lanes. But unlike many other metropolitan areas, San Francisco and two neighboring counties are creating an attractive alternative to clogged highways...
...Francisco-a fate that could also befall other less-prepared cities. However, help may be available for many communities in the next few years. Transportation Secretary John Volpe said last week that the Nixon Administration would ask Congress to allocate several billion dollars during the next decade for urban mass-transit facilities...
...nothing I can do except protect myself and my family and my business from bombs the best I can." The attitude seems typical of Cairenes, preoccupied with living through whatever lies ahead in the safest and most comfortable way possible. The daily task of hacking a way through the urban jungle is difficult enough for ordinary Cairenes, visible in the streets as ranks of sullen men in unpressed suits. Bitterly insecure, frustrated and angry, they might, in a less apathetic country, provide the base for a revolution. In Egypt, carefully watched by Nasser's security police, they care for neither...
...virtually every case, the blame has fallen on the Tupamaros, an extreme left-wing organization that also calls itself the National Liberation Movement. Since it operates in a country in which more than four-fifths of the population lives in cities and towns, it has dedicated itself to urban guerrilla warfare and eventual takeover by force. Despite such threats, the Tupamaros, cleverly exploiting economic and political discontent, have managed to build considerable admiration and sympathy among Uruguay's 2,600,000 people. Their daring, well-planned actions, their skillful public relations, their sense of humor and style have given...