Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of the big urban research-treatment centers is Sawtelle Hospital in West Los Angeles. Sawtelle's twelve buildings comfortably house some 6,000 veterans of every U.S. conflict after the Civil War. Depending on his condition, a Sawtelle patient may see a first-run movie, bowl, shoot pool, watch night baseball, attend church, get married, and be buried just a bugle call away from his buddies-all without leaving the hospital grounds. Says one 82-year-old Spanish-American War vet: "My boy, we're not just satisfied here. We're contented...
...career that equals anything in Horatio Alger. He has turned down the chance to run for mayor, comptroller, president of the city council, president of the borough of Manhattan, and lieutenant governor; he has served as president, vice president, overseer, trustee, director, or board member of everything from the Urban League and the Jewish Theological Seminary to Beth Israel Hospital, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, and Yeshiva University. Now, though he never went to college, Charles Silver will be senior trustee to the largest (900,000 pupiisj school system in the world...
Slum rehabilitation would give the current construction boom such a powerful boost that it would virtually guarantee a high level of building for decades. The Housing and Home Finance Agency estimates that the federal and municipal governments' share in the cost of slum clearance and urban rehabilitation would run at least to $24 billion. And for every $1 spent from public funds, HHFA estimates that private enterprise would spend $4 to $5. All told, 20 million urban dwellings need to be replaced or rehabilitated. Over a 20-year spread, the bill for public and private spending could reach...
...tried in bits and pieces which, said President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Housing, "simply will not work. Occasional thrusts at slum pockets in one section of a city will only push slums to other sections unless an effective program exists for attacking the entire problem of urban decay." Part of the problem lies outside the worst slums, in neighborhoods where middle-income homeowners have let their property become shabby...
...Hampton's 3,000-acre farm near Decatur, Tex. last week, a three-year-old Black Angus became the most valuable bull in the world. To Owners Hampton and Urban Simon. Rancher Jack Danciger of Fort Worth handed a check for a one-third interest in Prince 105 SAF. Price of Danciger's one-third interest...