Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advance of its opening. These venture-capitalists have a dismal evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch...
Granted such caveats, the elections nonetheless mark a new point of departure in American politics. They answer at least in part the growing demands of moderate Negro leaders like the Urban League's Whitney Young to "give us some victories" to offset the revolutionary preachings of black extremists. Even more important, the success of Stokes and Hatcher underscores an important new stage in the Negro's political evolution. Neither of the new mayors fits the traditional mold of the ghetto politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam...
...brother. A year later Mayor Anthony Celebrezze appointed him an assistant prosecutor under City Law Director Ralph Locher. The next step, in 1962, was election to the state legislature, where he quickly established himself as a prolific, catholic lawmaker. He helped draft legislation establishing a state department of urban affairs, wrote a new mental-health services act, helped enact stiffer traffic regulations, promoted a gun-control bill, worked for tougher air-pollution controls, and was the only Democrat to sponsor a bill giving the Governor power to send the National Guard into a city before a riot situation gets...
Though it has designated nearly twice as much land (6,060 acres) for urban renewal as Philadelphia, the runner-up, Cleveland probably has the worst fulfillment record of any major city. Blocks have been bulldozed for grandiose, half-forgotten schemes, while their residents, mostly Negro, have been left to find new homes for themselves. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development earlier this year took the almost unheard of step of withdrawing $10 million in previously allocated renewal funds. Negro slums like Hough are as bad as any in the country, and seem ready to explode, as Hough...
...than substance, but it was the kind of gesture that had been sadly missing around city hall. A more pragmatic innovation is Stokes's plan to fully integrate police precinct squads regardless of the neighborhoods they serve. He tried to hire Edward Logue to head Cleveland's urban-renewal program, but Logue declined to leave Boston, instead will serve Stokes on a consulting basis. Meanwhile, Stokes is talent-hunting for a full-time urban-renewal director and other top officials; and he is drawing plans to produce more jobs. He is already talking about how long it will...