Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colony residents were infected. The worldwide epidemic had begun (TIME, Sept. 27). The flu spread to Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, where King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit were among those affected. Authorities in the Soviet Union started vaccinating between 50% and 70% of Russia's urban population...
...complain about programs they consider unfair to the Soviet Union. But many more make it clear that the diversity of opinion expressed in foreign broadcasts provides the most credible source for news about their own country as well as the world. Regular listeners are kept informed about U.S. urban strife and protests against the war in Viet Nam, for example, and the BBC led off a roundup of editorial comment two weeks ago with the disarmingly frank observation that "most politicians must agree that we are in an unholy mess...
...allow their people to vote, employers in urban centers - from store owners to white housewives - staggered working hours. Queues formed outside polling stations in the capital of Lusaka at daylight as people hurried to town. In rural areas, men and women went to the polling stations - in some in stances only coarse hemp wrapped around a square of gumpoles - through the jungle and bush and across plains flooded by heavy rains. They arrived by donkey, on bicycles, in wooden-wheeled oxcarts and World War I jalopies, or came clutching the sides of slim leaky boats hewn from tree trunks...
...expanded the curriculum to include courses on black culture and his tory, next fall plans to launch a new : School of Urban Sciences to attack the problem of ghettos. Says Cheek: "It is our contention that the urban cri sis, except for air pollution and transportation, is basically a problem of black people." Cheek thinks that it is therefore up to black people to find solutions. Rather than overloading his faculty with Ph.D.s, he would prefer to hire "somebody like Claude Brown," the angry author of Manchild in the Promised Land. He would like to set up a program under...
Like Cheek, Henderson puts a high priority on urban studies, is establishing a Southern Center for Studies in Pub lic Policy with a $25,000 planning grant from the Field Foundation. He is also using grants to pay for an upcoming seminar on the economic development of black ghettos and a program to upgrade Negro college newspapers...