Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the Pentagon scheme, seven special task forces of Regular Army troops - more than 15,000 men - have been assigned as an elite service to cope with urban disruption. The riot forces will be dispatched only if the Na tional Guard - which has been undergoing special riot training since its woefully inept performances in Newark and Detroit last summer - cannot...
...started out as a struggling discussion group seven years ago, depending on small fixed donations from its membership, which now numbers 87 cities and eight Bay Area counties; its financial practices were informal to the point of being nonexistent. In 1965, the new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown envelopes without prior notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt...
Whether the NVA masses will ever at tack Khe Sanh became a matter of growing doubt and deepening divisions. Some ranking officers wondered if the enemy buildup there was only a diversion for the urban offensive further south or for a bypass thrust at Quang Tri or Danang. There was also a dawning realization that, for all President Johnson's warning against another Dienbienphu, Khe Sanh could be overrun by overwhelming human-wave attacks. A top U.S. general in Saigon reckoned that the base could be taken by 25,000 men in concerted assaults, "but a hell...
...Jana Sangh party and its opponents. In India's bitterly divisive political life, the Jana Sangh is one of the few success stories. Organized 17 years ago by the remnants of a militant pro-Hindu party that had been outlawed, the Jana Sangh started out as an archconservative, urban-based organization. Over the years, the leadership turned more moderate and began wooing voters in the countryside and in non-Hindu states of the south. In an attempt to win over Indians of all language communities, the party even toned down its longtime demand that knowledge of Hindi be made...
...such attempts to beautify the cityscape. The instances include Cambridge Seven's Boston subway turnstiles and New York's $1,000,000 vest-pocket Paley Park (all necessarily shown in photographs only). Scholars of the 30th century may well conclude that, like the Greeks and Romans, urban Americans turned inward from their streets and sacrificed freely to the household gods, glorified their public squares and buildings, but left the ordinary thoroughfares to stray cats and garbage collectors...