Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, delivered this speech at the National Conference of the Urban League in Philadelphia this August. Eckstein is a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors...
...large amount of jewelry, silver, and cash was stolen from the ransacked sub-urban home of Director of Athletics Adolph W. Samborski '26 early Sunday night...
...offer this "year-round" source of jobs, Delano has developed a stable Mexican-American community which makes up about half of the city's 12,000 population. Almost all of the Mexican-Americans live on the west side of town where the neighborhoods are only saved from being typical urban slums by the wide streets, low buildings, and invariably bright...
Perhaps not. One reason for the affection gap is that in a predominantly urban nation, Johnson palpably does not enjoy cities and has little empathy with the majority of Americans living in them. Also, as shown by the graceless handling of Historian Eric Goldman's resignation as a special presidential consultant this month, Johnson has little or no rapport with the intellectual community. The President's strained relations with Big Labor's top brass were all too evident at his pilgrimage to Detroit on Labor Day -though there was no lack of rank-and-file palms admiringly...
...Lieutenant Governor in the 1964 primary. This year Peabody won the Democratic nomination after a bruising battle with Boston's two-term mayor, John Collins, 47, an icy pragmatist whose political strength is based largely in the city, where he has mounted a brilliant if bloodless attack on urban renewal problems. Collins, a polio victim who is usually confined to a wheelchair, relied extensively on well-delivered television oratory and made an attempt to attract white-backlash votes by pointedly rejecting "civil disobedience as a means of attaining democratic objectives." Chub Peabody tirelessly stumped the state, chopping away...