Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making the programs work. So far, the Administration's most imaginative plan based totally on the concept of creative federalism is the $1 billion-plus Demonstration Cities program. It calls for the award of funds to municipalities that produce the most compelling plans for solving their own urban crises...
...chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, has probed deeply into the problem, agrees. "We want to save local autonomy from what could be its own destruction," he told Indiana's legislature last week. "If state and local governments do not take effective steps to meet the urban crisis, for example, someone will have to do the job. And that someone is likely to be the Federal Government...
Rivals or Partners. It is the urban crisis mentioned by Muskie that is the real testing ground for the Great Society, for 70% of all Americans are city dwellers. To the nation's mayors, the answer is more cash. Complaining about cutbacks in a number of urban programs ordered by the President last week for the purpose of shrinking the budget deficit, New York's John Lindsay cried: "Something is wrong with our national priorities when we reduce our commitment to our cities by well over a billion dollars at the same time we leave our space program...
Rural areas, always strong for the Machine, no longer have the strength they used to. Now, most of Virginia's voters live in cities and suburbs--before 1960 most voters were rural. 65 per cent of the Old Dominion's population lives in the urban corridor which slashes diagonally across the state from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., on south through Fredericksburg to Richmond, and then down into the densely-populated complex around the Navy installations at Norfolk. At the same time that the Byrd Organization has trouble in this area, its traditional margins in Southside have been severely...
...disastrous ideological split during the next four years; they must make sure they keep control of vital local offices; old line Byrd Machine leaders must be persuaded to step down for younger candidates and move closer to the increasingly powerful moderates who will make a play for the urban, labor and Negro vote...