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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urban redevelopment is creating small units of public housing throughout a city, Richard Lee, mayor of New Haven, said last night...

Author: By Lili A. Gottfried, | Title: Lee Urges End To Redeveloped 'Sanitary Ghetto' | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

...State Department has refused to apply pressure forcefully or openly against the regime. By controlling the Greek press and radio, the junta has led the urban literate and the rural folk to believe that the U.S. was solidly behind the coup. Secretary McNamara's recent warnings to the Greek minister of defense were misrepresented in the Greece newspapers as "understanding approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Military Aid to Greece | 5/23/1967 | See Source »

...such dry cities as Nashville and Memphis to vote on the sale of liquor by the drink. This week it is expected to repeal the old "monkey law" that prohibits the teaching of evolution. Alabama has redistributed gas-tax funds and other revenues, increasing the slice for urban Jefferson County (Birmingham) from $1,700,000 this year to an estimated $6,400,000 next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: A Strong Start | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Outnumbered 7 to 1 by Hindus, India's 60 million Moslems live largely outside the country's mainstream. They tend to mix little with Hindus, cluster in separate urban ghettos, have a different written language (Urdu), and enjoy immunities from federal laws so that they, for example, may practice polygamy while other Indians must limit themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Victory for Good Sense | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...sold out well in advance, and its annual network billings of $20 million enable Tonight to gross more than any other entertainment program on television. It is not only the size of the audience that attracts Carson's advertisers, but its quality as well. His viewers are mostly urban and at least high-school-educated-young enough to stay up late with ease, or successful enough not to have to show up too early for work. Jimmy Stewart watches, and so do Bobby Kennedy, Ed Sullivan, Darryl Zanuck, New York's Mayor John Lindsay, Nebraska Governor Norbert Tiemann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midnight Idol | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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