Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School Faculty's dramatic program to up-date and expand its involvement with urban problems is an encouraging start at making the School's activities more relevant to the urban crisis. But the Faculty should avoid too much self-congratuation. While its vote represented Harvard's first positive reaction to last week's urban explosion, crucial gaps remain in the sweeping proposals for reform...
...advocates of the recruiting plan argue, the Ed School also stands to gain from an influx of disadvantaged students. Minority group students bring with them a gut comprehension of the problems of their communities, and the Ed School cannot hope to function effectively in its urban training or research until it has the benefit of their perspective...
...history; that, in awesome contrast to the agonized figure we recently viewed on TV. If ever we need to illustrate an example of America's ingratitude to an elected President (i.e., his achievements in behalf of civil rights, aid to education, the elderly and handicapped, Medicare, urban renewal, social security, conservation, etc.), this should certainly be unparalleled in its savagery...
...Lawyers were shown to be collecting large fees from estates without heirs. Wretched conditions at children's welfare homes were exposed. One reporter posed as a Skid Row bum in order to find out who was stealing food from state-supported shelters. Vail created a department of urban affairs, sent its editor to study at Northwestern University for three months. He hired a fashion reporter from the defunct New York World Journal Tribune to "dress up Cleveland's women," as he put it, and end their reputation for being the "babushka...
...beyond this, the city has good reason to pick a fair as its 250th birthday present to itself. For what the city has really accomplished is urban renewal under the guise of a carnival, with the Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...