Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrepressibly energetic man whose normal gait is a gallop, Javits has been a Senator for nearly ten years. Thus, though that exalted station might once have seemed impossibly remote for a poor boy born in what Javits fondly describes as "the urban counterpart to a log cabin?a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize?a place on his party...
Preposterous? Jack Javits for President? Or Vice President? A slum-born Jew from the Lower East Side of New York? A luncheon companion and confidant of the G.O.P.'s Eastern "kingmakers" and Wall Street internationalists? A mugwump who backed F.D.R. in 1940 and bucked Barry Goldwater in 1964? An urban apostate who out-Democrats most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson...
...said Denver County G.O.P. Chairman John Wogan Jr., but he felt impelled to add: "Since the purpose is to win, we might have to take him." "Let's face it," said New Mexico's Republican Gubernatorial Candidate David Cargo. "Even in New Mexico, 70% of the population is now urban. Javits would add something important to the national ticket...
Javits' vote-getting talent in urban areas would be a big help in California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania?which among them carry a whopping 202 of the 270 votes needed for election...
...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...