Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). In "Cities of the Future," Walter Cronkite surveys the alternatives to chaos for to morrow's urban dwellers. Such city planners as Buckminster Fuller and Constantinos Doxiadis offer their comments...
...deliverable vote. Particularly worrisome to Democratic chieftains is the increasing independence of the labor vote, a cornerstone of the urban coalition that Franklin D. Roosevelt structured a generation back. There were significant blue-collar defections last year in such Democratic strongholds as Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Louisville and Memphis. Often, rank-and-file resistance to Negro demands is responsible. In the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Democratic Senator Paul Douglas' 1960 vote of 19,678 was cut to 7,823 last year after a series of racial clashes. In a labor area in California's Alameda County...
Gazing at the miles of neighboring urban sprawl and walking through the TV treadmills of Desilu and Warner's, the casual visitor to Hollywood will find it difficult to believe that it was once the habitat of Cro-Magnon man. His name was Harry Cohn, president and production head at Columbia Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most...
...relevant in a paper on college students. For the confirmed hippie, collegiate life in its usual form is anathema. Their characteristic response is asthetic rather than intellectual. Whatever hippie students there are, and there numbers are probably growing, exist mostly on the periphery or in the underground of large urban colleges and universities, in a sense dropping...
...federal government needs to spend more money, he said, for programs like urban beautification, rehabilitation, model cities, and city planning. He hopes for an increase of $2 billion a year in federal spending and does not expect resistance from the senate in withholding appropriations because of the fear of race riots...