Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon last November, "The Famous" was noisier than usual, as residents of the neighborhood celebrated the selection of their area as the site of one of the nation's first 63 Model Cities programs --the federal government's latest attempt at a concentrated attack on urban problems. Drinks flowed freely as the celebrants hastily plastered the walls with hand-lettered signs reading "Model Cities belongs to the residents...
Justin M. Gray, who supervised Cambridge's application, feels that the referendum will help to increase resident interest in Model Cities. Volunteers hope to ring all 4700 doorbells in the model neighborhood to explain the program to residents and especially to disassociate it from "urban renewal"--a very dirty word in many sections of the City...
Whereas I developed in a family which was tightly knit, most of the kids who are here have gone through life alone, isolated in grade school and high school. They have never belonged to a real family, only a couple of parents, a couple of siblings -- an American mobile urban society. They have no community lives in their memories to which they can compare this Harvard situation...
...Vietnamese, was being told all over Saigon last week. It dramatizes the feeling of fatalism that has been growing among many city dwellers since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect the population and even whether the U.S. really wants...
Outside the cities, the pacification program lies in ruins. In I Corps and the Delta, some 50% of the Revolutionary Development Teams have been pulled into cities for their own safety and to aid the urban refugees; few of those remaining are able to move out on pacification tasks. In some areas, supposed pacification has been exposed as cunning window dressing. The fortified villages outside Hué, which until Tet were considered showplaces of pacification in I Corps, last week resupplied the North Vietnamese defenders inside the city. So hostile has rural Viet Nam turned that last week the International...