Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle between Newcomer Hooker and the powerful Tennessee political machine controlled by Ellington and present Governor Frank Clement, who was running for the Senate in last week's primary. The organization, which has controlled the Statehouse for the last 14 years, proved stronger. Hooker failed in the urban areas he expected to carry, lost the Negro votes he had so stylishly courted. Ellington won 53% of the votes, and Frank Clement nosed out U.S. Senator Ross Bass for the Democratic senatorial nomination. There was no talk of a Kennedy defeat, nor any of a Johnson victory...
...there were some 200 million persons in Latin America, about 45 million more than ten years earlier and 61 million less, it is estimated, then will live there at the end of the decade. Now, half the people live on farms and half in cities; but by 1970, urban centers will bulge with some 60 per cent of the population...
...Harvard program, Davis said, will focus on the education of the rural and urban poor. Most Latin American school systems, he explained, are managed from remote ministeries in the capital cities. They do not provide adequat education or training to the rural populations, who are now accessible and demand these services...
...from the Center have been working under the auspices of the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies with the schools in the zone around Santo Tome de Guayana, Venezuela; and it is likely that at least one of the new projects will be conducted in that area. It is rumored that Davis, now in Venezuela, will negotiate some agreement concerning the study with the country's government before returning here...
...York Theological Seminary, founded in 1900 to train seminarians for the pastoral and missionary ministry, is, in Bonnell's opinion, uniquely suited now to specialize in urban ministry. It has on its staff such experts as the Rev. George W. Webber, who has led a program of community and spiritual renewal in East Harlem. As a condition for accepting the seminary's presidency, Bonnell has been given a free hand in overhauling the curriculum, which will soon offer new masters' degrees in pastoral counseling and urban ministry, complete with on-the-job training in slum parishes...