Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crushed Argument. There are other Bobbys within that slim, taut, toothy exterior. If Michael Harrington discovered America's poor, Kennedy adopted them ?not only in the urban ghettos, where the votes are, but also in the shacks of grape pickers, in the hillbilly hollers, along the rutted tobacco roads. He can communicate with the disinherited as few others of his race or rank are able to do. He can maul a William Manchester, then have the author serve as honorary chairman of a Kennedy for President club. He can be morose or merry, expansive or petty, merciless or magnanimous?...
Clean Beach. In its first 18 months, the ambitious plan will spend a total of $177 million to create 11,000 jobs and build 4,600 much-needed low-cost housing units. It is to revive Cleveland's long-stalled urban-renewal program (the nation's largest, with 6,060 acres involved and nothing completed), and set up expanded health and welfare facilities. So enthusiastic are residents about its prospects that 450,000 people have contributed-schoolchildren, factory workers, businessmen and a retired English professor who donated $1,000,000 worth of stocks. Together they oversubscribed...
...preparing a history and cultural series tracing the U.S. Negro back to the time of the slave traders. ABC last week announced a sixpart exploration of racism in the U.S. Next fall on NBC, Bell Telephone will drop its music specials in favor of documentaries on the urban crisis...
Attending the meeting were Bok, Vappi, four of the latter's associates, Albert M. Sacks, professor of Law, Joseph E. Leininger, vice-dean of the Law School, William S. Gardiner, deputy director of Buildings and Grounds, Martin Gopen, director of the Urban League's Skills Bank, and three members of the Black Law Students Association--Alphonso A. Christian, Charles J. Beard, and Philip...
...Other communities are watching to see whether we fall flat on our faces or we make it work," Gray told the Council. Linda Broderick, a representative of the New York office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, complimented residents who drew up the ordinance. Mrs. Broderick said, "We are looking for enormous success" from Cambridge's resident-controlled...