Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had endorsed Locher in his three previous campaigns, came out for Stokes in a front-page editorial. "This personable young man," said the city's only morning paper, "has vigor and imagination. He has the courage to try new solutions to the urban problems that are plaguing Cleveland and other cities...
...primary, he faces a strong challenge in the November election from Republican Candidate Seth Taft, 44, grandson of the 27th President and cousin of Congressman Robert Taft. A lawyer, Taft wants to bring municipal government closer to the people with 15 "branch city halls," promises to revitalize a sluggish urban-renewal program. He is an energetic and knowledgeable campaigner who would probably attract many normally Democratic votes on ability alone. But, in a race with Stokes, he would probably also attract many other Democrats who could just not bring themselves to vote for a Negro...
...polluted Hudson River flowing near their Poughkeepsie campus, Vassar girls also sought courses in environmental studies; the first one applies ten disciplines to a case study of the river as an example of man's relationship to his environment. Pomona College students secured an interdisciplinary seminar on "the urban quandary," while University of Pennsylvania student interest generated a series of sociology seminars on such topics as an "analysis of the Berkeley riots...
Because of the threat of terrorism, each U.S. observer traveled with his own security guard. They covered the countryside, questioning candidates and citizens, satisfying themselves about the conduct of the campaign. In Binh Thuan province, for example, Whitney Young of the Urban League talked things over with Senatorial Candidate Nguyen Van Viet. "Does the province chief favor one candidate over another?" Young asked. "I think not," answered Viet. Governor Richard Hughes of New Jersey put the question even more bluntly: "Has it been a fair campaign?" Said Viet: "Fair, honest, with no interference...
...population of less than 100-many of them accessible only by all but impassable dirt roads. But the isolation of the campesino is slowly breaking down. Fathers urge their sons to get some basic schooling so that they can land jobs in the nation's expanding industries and urban areas. Thus when a school trailer arrives in a village for its 31-month stay, it becomes a popular social center. The young children sit under an awning attached to the trailer for basic Spanish instruction in the morning, older youths return from farm chores to study in the afternoon...