Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later, he worked briefly at junior jobs in such family-dominated enterprises as the Chase National Bank (now Chase Manhattan) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (now Mobil). He began taking on charitable responsibilities and helped organize the Greater New York Fund. He became a leader of the National Urban League-not merely a contributor but a dedicated worker who did much to promote job opportunities for Negroes. Lester Granger, former executive director, calls Rockefeller "as good a board member as the Urban League ever...
...became the only official ever to hold that office four consecutive terms. Under his aegis, the city went through a renaissance. Slums were razed, expressways were built, steelmill smog was thinned out by tough anti-pollution laws, and the city's Golden Triangle-a symbol of enlightened urban renewal-rose downtown...
...oust-Diefenbaker movement centered around Dalton Camp, 46, the party's national chairman. An articulate Toronto advertising man, Camp blames the party's two straight losses in national elections on Diefenbaker's failure to appeal to the urban areas, to the Catholic French of Quebec, and to Canada's youth. For the past two months, Camp has been openly demanding that the party call a "leadership" convention to oust the old prairie lawyer...
...asked for $2500 "seed money" to finance an initial independent survey out of his own office. The survey would look into every facet of Cambridge planning, he said, and would definitely include housing, urban renewal, transportation, and education. It would also cover specific City concerns such as the proposed incinerator, the new hospital, and new libraries and schools...
...Frank said yesterday that men such as Richard E. Neustadt, director of the Institute, and Institute members Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law, and Daniel P.Moynihan, director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, would probably also take part...