Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COSMOPOLIS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Architects and urban planners of today present ways of easing the choked conditions of tomorrow, including the possibility of constructing floating cities...
...over the White House. The Democratic Party, which has ruled Capitol Hill for most of the past 40 years, seemed not only to have lost its old suzerainty over labor, the South and the minority groups, but also to have estranged the young, educated and relatively well-to-do urban voters. The legacy of an unhappy year for the Democrats was a bruising awareness of the necessity-more tantalizingly, of the possibility-for change...
Another Beacon. There were no shadings of this sort to Ted Kennedy's victory. He won a clear mandate from his colleagues to lead his party's moderates in the task of preserving and expanding the urban-oriented programs of the Great Society. As a longtime critic of Viet Nam, he showed that a majority of the Senate Democrats may now very well be antiwar. As a member of the Democratic hierarchy, he will have considerable influence on the legislation that Richard Nixon offers to Congress, and on the countervailing programs that the Democrats can now only propose...
...Johnson budget for the fiscal year beginning July1 will total about $192 billion, up $7.6 billion over the current year. This presumes a halving of the income tax surcharge to 5%, a proposal that Richard Nixon is understood to have accepted, if somewhat reluctantly. This would allow for funding urban programs at roughly their current levels-again dissatisfying to both liberals and conservatives. It would, however, permit an increase in the military budget of $4.9 billion (to $78.5 billion), which is less than the service chiefs and their partisans on Capitol Hill want. House Armed Services Chairman Mendel Rivers insists...
Rodwin called claims by the Boston press that the Center would become computerized and concern itself more with the technological aspects of urban problems because of Wood's appointment "utter nonsense...