Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Gardner redeemed his prom ise by accepting the chairmanship of the national Urban Coalition, an amal gam of leaders from business, labor, local government, religious and civil rights organizations that was formed to attack the civic problems highlighted by the Newark and Detroit riots...
...fact, Gardner - the ablest administrator of urban reform in the U.S.-had inspired the coalition in the first place. More than a year ago, sensing the imminent fall of congressional axes on Great Society funding, HEW's Secretary told a group of university presidents that the "nation would benefit greatly by a revival of local leadership outside Government." He warned a Cleveland audience last April: "It will be a sad end to a great enterprise if the epitaph for our society turns out to read: 'All the best people bemoaned the quality of leadership, but none sought...
...million is intended to educate urban specialists in landscaping, city planning, and regional planning. According to Doebele, $6 million will be allocated for building, $2 1/2 million for advanced environmental studies, $1 million for new laboratories and workshops and $2 million for increased financial aid to students and large salaries for the Faculty...
...diocesan ministry himself, Sterling, 57, resigned last October as Bishop of Montana because he felt "completely frustrated in my work." A zealous Christian activist, he was discouraged by the failure of Montana Episcopalians to support such measures as laws against racial discrimination in housing, and the organization of urban ministries...
...about civilian deaths, With morality-rates after single raids in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands. But recent events suggest that we have reached the kind of turning-point that occurred sometime in 1942, when a secret policy-decision was made to abandon traditional restraints against large urban populations. As ordinary citizens, we may never know when or how such a turning point is reached, as the British Air Command continued to deny any policy-change even after the destruction of Dresden...