Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of 1968's mail, TIME'S letter writers found that it was largely concerned with the more serious news-Viet Nam, the capture of the Pueblo, politics at home and abroad, student protest, urban unrest, assassination. In other years, readers seemed more concerned with lighter stories. In 1967 the article that drew the most mail was the cover story about Playboy's Hugh Hefner; in 1968, it was the cover that reported on the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
DANIEL Patrick Moynihan's observation was apt, and its pith was as relevant to his own bailiwick of urban problems as it was to William Rogers' diplomatic domain. As the new Administration gets up-uncommonly early-in the morning, it should have little difficulty in broadly defining its goals. Specific strategies and tactics for achieving them are something else. Washington must decide soon if it is going to enter into serious arms-control talks with the Russians. The new President must make up his mind whether to frame a State of the Union address...
Challenged Council. On the domestic side, one of Nixon's first important official acts was to sign the executive order creating his Cabinet-level Council for Urban Affairs. He used the ceremonial multipen technique, complaining that his name was too short and his scrawl too undisciplined to allow for a legible signature and a large number of souvenirs. But the name appeared as clear as his intention to make the council a vital body, the domestic equivalent of the National Security Council...
...council will be larger than originally indicated. With Nixon as chairman, it will include Vice President Spiro Agnew and the heads of seven departments: Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Health, Education and Welfare, Commerce, Transportation, Labor and Agriculture. Moynihan will serve as a kind of chief of staff...
When we compare the urban environment of Harvard with that of certain other large universities, we find cause neither for smugness nor despair. The precincts of the university, both in Boston and Cambridge, touch on the neighborhoods of the poor, both black and white. The Personnel Office seeks to recruit employees from a labor force that contains many persons who, owing to inadequate education, lack of skills, or a steady exposure to the barriers of racial discrimination, are chronically unemployed or underemployed. With in walking distance of Harvard are public facilities -- schools, hospitals, and recreation areas--that are dilapidated, undermanned...