Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cabal two years ago to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell. This time, according to police, under the cover title of the Jamaica Rifle and Pistol Club, RAM members were drawing up a plot to assassinate N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins, Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. and at least three other moderate Negro leaders. The apparent idea was to blame the killings on whites and inspire nationwide racial uprisings. The only hitch in RAM's secret plans was that New York City police had been chronicling its activities...
...term G.O.P. Congressman from San Mateo County, Calif., a prosperous San Francisco savings and loan executive who became an early (1954) exponent of giving Cabinet status to big-city interests under an etymologically questionable but politically sensible "Department of Urbiculture," the conceptual forebear of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; of leukemia; in Washington...
...demonstrator who was protesting a death sentence imposed upon his cousin, Posteal Laskey,* the riots raged not through a Negro slum, but in spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National Guard. Police read the state riot act to the mobs over loudspeakers, then arrested 16 Negroes who were "congregating" in defiance...
...riots will doubtless be a factor in the September Democratic mayoral primary. Even as Roxbury quieted, Mayor John Collins, 47, an honest, efficient, if tough-fisted administrator, announced that he would not seek a third term. Though Edward Logue, the city's famed urban renewal director, will most likely be the favored candidate of the outgoing Collins administration and the city's business community, School Committee Member Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, a longtime foe of enforced school integration, will almost certainly cull some white votes as a result of the Blue Hill eruption, and has at least...
Queen's English. Recently, however, the Aborigines have been wandering away from their tribes, seeking their place in Australia's urban prosperity. Despite restrictions on their education, many have progressed from pidgin English ("Big feller rain bin come up") to the less colorful but more practical Queen's English ("I think we are in for a heavy downpour"). Several Aborigines are now serving with Australian forces in South Viet Nam. A 15-year-old Aborigine girl, Yvonne Goologong, is the national junior women's tennis champion. A few, such as Public Health Official Phillip Roberts (known...