Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least not in numbers: two out of every three poor Americans are white. Of the 11 million rural poor, nearly 9,000,000 are white. Since 70% of the nation's citizens live in cities and towns, it is not surprising that more than 60% of the poor are urban dwellers. In age, nearly half of the poor are 21 or younger; a quarter 55 or older. Indeed, a third of all Americans of 65 or older?5,400,000 of them ?are poor...
Many of the poor urban whites' children hang out, sullen and sledge-fisted, at places like "The Lunch Pail," a tawdry dive on Chicago's seamy North Side; many become winos, staggering along the hallways in search of a corner to crumple up in. There are 30,000 Appalachians in the North Side area, a melting pot of penury composed of 10,000 Indians, 5,000 Puerto Ricans and Mexicans, and a smattering of Eskimos and Cuban refugees...
...cities. Walter Pollard, 64, came up from Winston-Salem, N.C., to Harlem in search of a "good job." Today he lives just over the poverty line?$150 a month as a janitor keeps him a scant penny above the $1,710 poverty line for a single man in an urban area. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and lean in his baggy denim trousers, woolen work jacket and purple longshoreman's cap, he used to support a wife and five children. He and his wife were divorced a few years ago. "All that hard work, and I wind up a poor...
...search for answers proceeds, however guiltily or imperfectly, with new resolve. Since the murder of Martin Luther King, says Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, civil rights has stopped being a "spectator sport." Like no other single event in the history of U.S. race relations, the assassination of King, a man who staked his life on his country's conscience, drove home the need for personal commitment to a cause that can easily be lost by default. "The vast untapped resources of the silent, decent people have been awakened," wrote Young in his syndicated...
...technical questions as ballistic-missile accuracy, surface-to-air missile guidance and the Nike-X warhead. IDA lately has broadened out to provide research on nonmilitary problems. It has studied the probable demand for a supersonic airliner, and is negotiating a research contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Officials of IDA argue that if they were free to talk about its classified work, they could prove that the Institute has frequently been more of a restraining influence than an escalating pressure on questions relating to the war in Viet...