Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is being written - and said - is that unless there is a decided upturn in his fortunes before November 1968, Johnson may have to pack that suit case. Between unrest over urban upheaval, the war and the need to raise taxes, the President's popularity has shriveled almost to the vanishing point...
...swift change indicates the fickle nature of popularity. The figures by themselves prove little 15 months before Election Day, but they are a symptom of Johnson's deep political troubles. The wars, Asian and urban, and such of their echoes as higher taxes, are not likely to disappear soon, and Congress shows little willingness to ease the Administration's difficulties. Top Democrats are openly perturbed. "I can't say things have been worse," says one National Committee official. Michigan's state party chairman, Zolton Ferency, predicts a Johnson defeat next year if Viet Nam and racial...
Wilson, former director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, will serve on the 14-man board...
...small cars for the streets of the model city; they record the city's sounds and transform them-slowed tapes of a pingpong ball bouncing on concrete boom like a distant gun; the filming gives them new visual perspectives-all aimed at making them more aware of an urban environment. "If you don't get imagination as a child, you probably never will," he argues, "because it gets knocked out of you by the time you grow up." The workshop also aims to help teachers discover how children can work together creatively. Adults, claims Geisel, are really "children...
...bring together experts from the fields of medicine, law, the social sciences, philosophy and religion. Participants will include six Harvard professors, Dean Griswold of the Law School, Mary Bunting, President of Radcliffe, and such figures as Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Whitney Young, Executive Director of the Urban League...