Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official in the Delta: "You can say the villagers are doing it to save their own skins. But it was their skins before, and they remained passive." Two things have made the difference. The first spur was the deadly 1968 Tet offensive, which brought the war home to urban Vietnamese as never before. The Viet Cong occupied large sections of Phu Vinh, capital of Vinh Binh province, and killed 13 civilians be fore they were driven out. The second factor is a swashbuckling ex-actor named Tom Hayden, at 27 the No. 2 U.S. representative in Vinh Binh province...
...school issues arouse more passions than bussing children to achieve racial integration. It is clearly not a satisfactory long-range solution, especially in large cities where Negroes are heavily concentrated in large ghettos. But until urban housing patterns change, bussing is one practical way of getting a better racial balance in public schools, and it has worked out much better than expected in such cities as Evanston, Chicago and Seattle, where Negro children are transported to white neighborhood schools. This fall, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., are proving that it is just as feasible to send buses along...
...electoral votes, the New York Daily News straw poll last week showed Javits defeating O'Dwyer by better than 2 to 1. Nonetheless, Javits takes no chances. In grueling 15-to 20-hour days, he stumps the state, replaying his record as a champion of urban causes and civil rights and his own call for peace in Viet Nam. Once a supporter of L.B.J.'s war policy, Javits began voicing disquiet in February 1967. To O'Dwyer, that makes Javits a Jacob-come-lately to the dovecote. Yet even O'Dwyer does not go far enough...
...recommendation is that the university be organized so flexibly that it can quickly create new colleges addressed to contemporary problems, then dissolve them when need or interest wanes. The study recommends the creation of five such colleges as soon as possible. One might be devoted to action on urban problems, another to social philosophy, with related courses ranging from the study of ancient myths to existentialism...
...third time that Cushing had publicly announced his intention to resign. A product of Boston's once-Irish urban ghetto, he was named Archbishop of the city in 1944, and subsequently proved to be one of the great school and church builders of American Catholicism. Affectionately human and totally unpredictable, Cushing was, more importantly, a pioneer ecumenicist in the open style of Pope John, a maverick prelate who found it possible, at various times, to endorse both the John Birch Society and the N.A.A.C.P. In poor health for many years-and, at 73, only two years away from...