Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...austere defense is not designed to protect urban centers but to preserve the land-based U.S. missile arsenal for a devastating retaliatory strike. That arsenal, consisting of 1,000 Minutemen and 54 Titan Us, is more than double Russia's stockpile of 470 land-based missiles. But London's Institute for Strategic Studies reported last week that the Russians are closing the gap; as for the Chinese, the I.S.S. noted that they have begun test-firing a missile with a 400-mile range...
...today, seems likely to persist as a major theme through the 1968 presidential elections. With that thought in mind, Lyndon Johnson last week flew to Kansas City, Mo., to present the forgathered police chiefs of 350 U.S. and Canadian cities with his own program and prescriptions for coping with urban anarchy. To judge by the reception accorded him at the 74th annual convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs (see THE LAW), the President and the professionals are on the same wave length...
...fight against urban slums, one huge reservoir of money and talent-the business community-has been largely overlooked. Now, with a powerful economy mood in Washington blocking any large new federal programs, urban spokesmen, both in Congress and the Johnson Administration, are looking for ways to lure private industry into the ghettos. Business, in turn, seems to be awakening to its opportunities as well as its responsibilities in the cities. Last week, as proof, the nation's life insurance industry pledged to invest $1 billion in the slums...
Greek Walls. In one camp were archaeologists who have yearned to dig into Marseille's rich, entombed past for decades. Opposed to them are proponents of a long-planned urban-renewal project-the Projet de la Bourse...
Father Drinan saw race discrimination in North Carolina's relaxation of its abortion law because, he said, it was mainly aimed at reducing the Negro birth rate. But the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr. (TIME cover, Aug. 11) saw the poor as the target and suggested that some states might make abortion easier to reduce the wel fare rolls. Young complained that the poor were discriminated against in that they could not obtain costly but safe abortions in the U.S. or travel abroad for them as can the well...