Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hampshire ranks 43rd in state population, commands four electoral votes out of 538, will have only eight 1,333 delegates to the Republican National Convention, and is too insulated and ingrown to offer any faithful reflection of an urban nation's moods and problems. Each leap year, however, the Granite State's psephological irrelevance is submerged by the flood of publicity and punditry over its first-in-the-U.S. presidential primary...
Curle's twin preoccupations with violence and underdevelopment are drawing him more and more into the problems of America's urban ghettos. Currently teaching African history one day a week in Patrick-Campbell Junior High School--one of Roxbury's worst schools--Curle is increasingly struck with the parallels between the underdeveloped world and what he now calls "the underdeveloped parts of the developed world...
...Redevelopment Authority wields more power than any other of Boston's civil agencies. As director Champion will have responsibility for the city's burgeoning urban renewal program...
Throughout urban America the scene was the same: a rising rate of increasingly violent and audacious crimes-met by a strong public outcry that something must be done. The call was to fight force with force-more police, more guns. Very often the crimes and the counterforce involved Negroes and ghetto neighborhoods, just the places where extremists have been making increasingly militant demands and threats...
Accordingly, when it decided in the early 1960s to move from cramped offices on Madison Avenue, it called for a building that would symbolize its esthetic preoccupations and, as President McGeorge Bundy (who took office in early 1966) puts it, "give the best urban environment for working people." The new $16 million Ford Foundation headquarters, into which some 350 executives, technicians and secretaries have now moved, is a twelve-story work of art, as fresh and bold to look at from the outside as it is invigorating to work...