Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITIES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "To Build the Future," concluding segment of a three-part series on America's decaying urban centers, weighs two urbanological alternatives-renewing existing cities or building entirely new ones on unused land -and discusses problems and promises inherent in each. Walter Cronkite reports...
...Capitol Hill, Rockefeller promoted "coattail power"-meaning that he can get more Republican Congressmen elected in'November than Nixon. He reminded audiences of Congressmen and Senators that in 1966 many Republicans lost tight races in urban and industrial areas, where Rocky claims great pulling power. On his lapel, the candidate wore a blue-and-white button with the number 218 on it; that, he explained, was the number of Republicans it would take to control the House. "I'm trying to bring home to them that I can help get it," he said...
...CITIES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a three-part series (last two on June 25 and 26), Walter Cronkite reports on the urban crisis. In the first program, the attrition of a city is examined; the second focuses on the "Crisis in Black and White" and the third on ways to improve cities of today and in the future...
Such controls would be costly and undoubtedly irksome. Even so, the point has come when they are essential. The frontier is gone, and its folkways cannot reasonably be condoned in a dense, tension-filled urban society. The time has long passed when a firearm can be allowed to serve as an instrument of individual justice?as it too often is even today...
...nation's cities. In Boston's case, as the middle-class Irish drifted to the suburbs, Curley-style paternalism faded. The hospital was flooded with more and more poor patients, but it lacked the means to provide the increasingly expensive medical care. Faced with spreading urban decay and soaring annual deficits, a strapped city hall felt compelled to place the hospital's money requests far behind other needs, such as schools, slum demolition and downtown renewal. Three years ago, the hospital's accreditation was put on probation. Still, newly installed Mayor Kevin White, who has switched...