Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate military effect of the attack, many publications thought the U.S. and the South Vietnamese had suffered a severe loss of face. "The psychological damage," said the New York Times, "is tremendous. Exposure of the inability of the allied forces to shield the country's urban centers, long isolated from the fighting war, has certainly made the blow even heavier." Yet other papers, like the Washington Evening Star, questioned whether the enemy gained any psychological advantage. The Communists, to be sure, said the Star, have proved that they can "attack and disrupt life in almost any city." But that...
Experts active in Government, business, or education will lead the groups. Samuel V. Merrick, special counsel to Mayor Kevin White, will head the groups dealing with urban problems, along with Paul Parks, administrator of the Boston Model cities Program...
...effort to get the School of Education to hire a Negro professor for its new. Chair in Urban Studies, the Urban League of Greater Boston is circulating a memorandum among Roxbury parent and community groups asking for suggested names of qualified black professionals...
...League will deliver the list to Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Ed School, "probably this week," Toye Brown, Education Coordinator for the Urban League and author of the paragraph-long memorandum, said yesterday...
...know anything about it," Sizer said yesterday, commenting on the memorandum and the forthcoming list. But he added that race would not be a consideration in filling the new post, which grew out of the recent Ford grant establishing five chairs in Urban Studies at the University...