Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the stringent warning to avoid residential areas. Their orders specified that if any plane got shot down outside a city, a jet protective patrol would be put overhead and a helicopter brought in to rescue them within the hour. If, however, a pilot crashed his aircraft in an urban area, he was told that he could "speak saroya," Air Force jargon for goodbye. Going in on the fourth wave over Hanoi, the pilot of the downed F-105 Thunderchief did in fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later, he was identified by Hanoi as Captain...
Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, and James Q. Wilson, associate professor of Government, will conduct the survey for the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...survey will not study how the urban voter stands on national problems, but will seek to learn something about the nature of the city-citizen bond -- a largely unexplored question. A random sample of Boston voters will be asked what they think the city may demand of them, and what they think it owes them...
...White Folks Must Go." So uneasy are some moderates over the growing streak of undirected anger in the rights movement that the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League have given the Mississippi march limited and lukewarm support. Their reservations seemed well founded. At one point last week the marchers took up the chant: "Hey, hey, what do you say? White folks must go, must go!" Retorted Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Field Director Charles Evers, whose brother Medgar was assassinated three years ago as a result of his civil rights activities: "If we are marching these roads for black supremacy...
...Footsie." The G.O.P.'s fresh face belongs to Dempsey's good friend and neighbor E. (for Edmund) Clayton Gengras, 57, chairman of the Security-Connecticut Group and of the Connecticut Co., which runs urban bus lines. A high school dropout, Gengras is a self-made millionaire and self-starting candidate whose first bid for public office took both rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats by surprise. Also surprising was the unanimity mustered at the party convention, which nominated him by acclamation. Though Nutmeg State Republicans have been notorious for factional feuding in recent years, State Republican Chairman...