Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every program in the Great Society's lexicon. Months and years before the Federal Government showed any interest in the cities, it had its own poverty and manpower-training projects, a rent-supplement demonstration, and a promising Head Start program. Washington has rewarded the city's imaginative urban-renewal administration with a greatly disproportionate share of federal renewal money-$852 per capita (given or pledged), or six times as much as Philadelphia, in terms of population, 17 times as much as Chicago, 20 times as much as New York. Indeed, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...life as tightly around his city as any mayor in America, would agree. "For everything we've done," he says, "there are five things we haven't done, or five things we've failed at. If New Haven is a model city, then God help urban America...
Luck notwithstanding, it will take an unprecedented combination of power and principle to resolve the plight of America's cities. Last week in Washington, the beginnings of such a partnership were welded at a day long "convocation" of the newly formed Urban Coalition. The group included Henry Ford II, Walter Reuther, David Rockefeller, George Meany, A. Philip Randolph, I. W. Abel, Whitney Young, John Lindsay. The list, 1,200 strong, comprised mayors and millionaires, bishops and union bosses...
...major new offensive on the slums, Johnson replied with a typical laundry list of measures already proposed. Not until these were all enacted and funded would the Administration consider new ideas. Two days after telling Congress that "we can no longer be satisfied with business as usual" when urban problems "are so urgent," he said to reporters that "several billions" would have to be squeezed out of the nonmilitary side of the budget to control the deficit in the current fiscal year. Thus, despite his admonition to Congress, it is clearly still very much business as usual for Johnson...
...testimonial to the innate courage of ordinary people facing ordinary problems. But his film is about more than its story. Without once forcing a point or losing faith in the viewer's ability to think for himself, he offers a fascinating study of a complex, shifting society, the urban Indian middle class caught in the clash of native tradition and the lingering relics of the British...