Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago project symbolizes today's expanding effort by both government and private enterprise to reach the long-elusive goal of providing good low-cost dwellings for the nation's poor and near poor. Over the past three decades, Washington has poured some $6.5 billion into housing subsidies and urban renewal, committed at least another $13 billion as yet unspent to the same controversial programs. Yet one recent White House report estimated that 8,300,000 Americans still cannot afford a decent place to live...
Correctly foreseeing that the U.S. faces a decade of sharply increasing demands for shelter, many big corporations are devising cost-cutting ways to snare a share of the market. Urban Systems Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric, is building a project of 100 town houses in Montgomery County, Md. Crane Co. is building whole bathrooms, and Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis...
With 14,825 members, the First Baptist Church of Dallas is the biggest Southern Baptist church in the U.S. This year the church celebrated its centennial and, coincidentally, its pastor, the Rev. Dr. W. A. Criswell, is serving as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Despite its urban location, First Baptist preserves the folksiness and fervent spirit of a country congregation. Architecturally, the church is a 19th century red brick horror, but inside age and polish have mellowed its determined ugliness. The services, too, have a turn-of-the-century flavor. Sermons, by Criswell or one of his three assistant...
...upheaval. Polk was able to report, among other things, that in each block along 12th Street there were 26 or more households headed by a woman, a fact that suggested many broken homes. Now, Polk has contracts with ten cities, from Pittsburgh to Asheville, N.C., to supply urban statistical data. Since it already has most of the information stored in computers, it can sell it for 12½? a household v. the average charge of $1 to $2 per interview for a special survey...
...Bullitt is given a distinct touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...