Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan, the Government would, over a span of five years or so, gradually withdraw all price supports. Meanwhile, it would whittle away at the farmer surplus with 1) the whole-farm "land retirement" program and 2) a federal-state-local voluntary resettlement program to inform marginal farmers about urban job opportunities and help them make the shift with free vocational training, even financial aid. The C.E.D. proposals would be expensive, but C.E.D. claims for them one outstanding virtue: "They would have a foreseeable...
...voting was for urban councilors to act as "advisers" to the Belgian authorities. All males, white or black, over 25 years of age were eligible to vote. The Belgian aim is to create a "partnership" between the two races, setting them out to travel on parallel courses, but with the whites significantly senior. Thus, under the new "cities statute," Leopoldville is divided into three European communes for its population of 30,000 whites, and eight jampacked African communes for its 350,000 blacks. White and Negro mayors will be selected from the elected councilors by veteran (six years) Governor General...
This week the urban elections (or "consultations," as the Belgian authorities prefer to call them) will be extended to Elisabethville and Jadotville, the largest towns in the mining province of Katanga. Next in line: Stanleyville, Bukavu, Luluabourg, Matadi. But not even unlimited economic opportunity can still the demand for political expression, which runs through Africa like a fever. Said one Congolese last week: "This didn't come soon enough, and it isn't enough...
...disciplines of a private school education, and places too much emphasis on the sexual ineptitude of its products. The writer, however, gets off one classic generalization which almost makes his effort worthwhile: "In addition the society serving as the basis for the New England preparatory schools--th upperclass, urban East--cannot help but be classified as a decadent society in a decadent region." His authority for the statement springs from a Boise, Idaho background...
William A. Doebele, Jr., will become Assistant Research professor of Urban Studies, Martin Meyerson, Director of the Center for Urban Studies in the Graduate School of Design announced yesterday. Doebele will assume his new post on February 1 as the first member of a new staff...