Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator, and the state has not seen a real race for the upper house in 31 years. Now seven eager Democrats and two Republicans are seeking Eastland's seat. The most prominent contender is Governor Cliff Finch, 51, a gladhanding populist who enjoys support among rural whites and urban blacks. But any Governor makes enemies, and three Democrats have a shot at upsetting Finch: his predecessor, former Governor Bill Waller, 51, a folksy Jackson lawyer who has a broad black following after twice prosecuting the accused murderer of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers; Columbia Attorney Maurice Dantin...
Rusk makes a good point. But Carter has enlarged his own problem. He is uncomfortable with bigness and complexity. He is suspicious of wealth and achievement, wary of tradition, protocol and many of the rituals of advanced urban society. In his populist fevers he sometimes seems mistakenly to champion mediocrity rather than excellence. Some of his prejudices seem to arise more from his small-town background than from reason and experience in a diverse world. A Congressman who went to the White House to argue tax reform with the President came away feeling that Carter made good sense until...
...Saudis have bought the best in people too. To make some order out of urban chaos, for example, they brought in Greek City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis. To build up their soccer teams, they hired British Coach Jimmy Hill. To head the new Applied Research Institute at the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, they signed William Pickering, who as head of California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory helped put a man on the moon...
...American. Seven years later whites numbered only 35%. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became so discouraged with the situation that it appealed for the plan to be reviewed. Claimed N.A.A.C.P. General Counsel Nathaniel Jones: "The Dallas plan had become something of a model for large urban school districts that did not want to or felt for one reason or another that they couldn't completely desegregate...
Although the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Carter has helped to turn the imbalance around, Proxmire said, Congress should still pass legislation to insure that at least one-third of federal aid to cities would be spent on areas seriously in need of rehabilitation