Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graduate school deferments will probably be granted only to students in the exact sciences and related fields. Those planning to do graduate work in urban sociology or in the economics of underdevelopment, for example, will be asked to do the fighting while the chemical engineer and the mathematicians stay home. The SSS has decided that only the latter are in the "national interest...
Logue has been active in Boston politics, recently running unsuccessfully for the mayorial nomination in Boston's September primary election. He is also Maxwell Visiting Professor of Government at Boston University and has been appointed a Visiting Associate of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...Urban League's veterans' program (TIME, May 26) is already functioning in eight cities-Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco and Washington-and in some of them has found work for more than a third of its applicants. Still, even the Urban League could do nothing for one Negro soldier who had lost an arm in the war and found that prospective employers considered him not a war hero but merely a one-armed man. He decided to stay in the service...
Still another unanswered question is whether the state universities, true to their traditional role as the community's intellectual social utility, can solve the urban problems of the present as well as they did the rural ones of the past. The land-grant colleges created most of the agricultural technology that has made the U.S. the most successful farming nation on earth. Now public universities need to develop new tools, courses, disciplines and methods of research to help the cities. One such special city problem is how to help Negroes and other minority groups fulfill their own rising expectations...
Bryant Rollins, a community organizer for the Urban League, set the tone of the evening when he asked members of the audience to stand and give their names. "We want to know who the enemy is," he said...