Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Increasingly, "crime in the streets"-an omnibus label encompassing all the wellsprings of urban unrest from ghetto riots to muggings in middle-class neighborhoods-looms, with the possible exception of Viet Nam, as the nation's prime preoccupation in Election Year 1968. Predicted Vice President Hubert Humphrey: "Safe streets will be the No. 1 domestic issue, overshadowing taxes, inflation and all the rest." Added a Humphrey aide: "Another summer of riots could really sink us next fall...
Some critics urge the Federal Government to do the insurance industry a favor and take over the auto-accident business entirely. Urban Specialist Daniel P. Moynihan, who chairs a federal auto-safety advisory committee, suggests a federal insurance system modeled on workmen's compensation, with awards made strictly on the basis of loss rather than fault. "Financing such a system," he argues, "might be the easiest part of all." Some $3.4 billion a year in gasoline taxes is already being spent to build the Interstate Highway System. When the system is finished in 1973, Moynihan would simply raise...
...Urban Issues...
...Sabbath, prohibits the eating of meat and dairy food at the same meal, and prescribes ritual bathing for men and women at certain times. Until a generation ago, Orthodox Jewry was also distinguished by its hostility and indifference to the secular world, and its adherents lived clannishly together in urban ghettos-as the fervent Hasidic sects still...
...last week crisply advised their fellow retailers that it is time to get more deeply involved in civil rights. In New York, in a sharp speech delivered at the National Retail Merchants Association convention, Charles Y. Lazarus told his colleagues that they must personally take a part in the urban crisis that has storekeepers "living on a volcano." And Neiman-Marcus President Stanley Marcus announced that henceforth civil rights will be as important a factor as price, quality or delivery time in what his six Texas specialty stores in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston...