Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUSTICE FOR ALL? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Edwin Newman searches for answers among the urban, migrant and rural poor, who have often been denied access to the law. Cameras focus on low-income people in Cleveland, Salinas, Calif., and rural Oklahoma. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and local administrators discuss the problems and possible remedies...
Cambridge Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. then named two of Harvard's top urban experts--Daniel P. Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies and William W. Nash '50, associate professor of City Planning--to head the overseeing committee. Other Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors are now being recruited by the City to fill the committee's roster...
Addressing the Young Republican Symposium on the Urban Crisis, Whalen charged that present federal poverty programs "discourage the poor from trying to work, to save, and to support their families." The administrative approach of an "expanding bureaucracy" must end, he declared...
State Rep. John W. Sears '52, who ran third in the recent mayoralty primary, supported Whalen, claiming that "the federal government has become the landlord" in an increasingly feudal relationship. Sears scored the Republican party's "abdication of responsibility" for the urban crisis...
Both Republicans at the Symposium agreed that urban problems cannot be solved by money alone. Attacking the "Democratic party's mechanized approach" to poverty, Sears said, "We must encourage people to use what they have." He added, "You don't solve the problems of the ghetto by forming another committee...