Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic primary. Instead, he stuck out his chin. In last week's run off for the party's nomination for Governor, he first threw away the votes of a lot of rural whites. Then he proceeded to throw away the votes of a lot of urban Negroes. That still left plenty of Floridians, but not enough to save the presumably entrenched political pro from disaster...
...them supported by the Ford Foundation. Southern newsmen are now being awarded Mark Ethridge scholarships for study at any of six Southern universities. Stanford University is starting a program for some 40 journalists. Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism this fall will offer 40 reporters programs in urban studies. The Russell Sage Foundation has made two grants for study of the social sciences at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia. The American Political Science Association plans to pay the cost of sending twelve journalists to any universities they choose...
...community-based papers of the U.S. were a welcome change of pace. Having spent seven months in the U.S. last year, he decided that the future of U.S. newspapers is bright, "partly as a result of the pressure of the reading public. Much more aware of the problems of urban life and of the inadequate response of political leaders, the readers want aggressive journalism. The will must be there in publisher or editor; but the economic base is strong, and there is every reason why the local newspaper in America should revive, as a public voice, in the next decade...
...Manufacturers, of course, are as delighted as the Pentagon with the improving technology of military helicopters. This year Fairchild-Hiller, Bell and Hughes will bring out utility and executive models based on military designs. Sikorsky sees a big civilian market for its Skycranes, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development has just put up $490,000 to test whether the Crane can fly a buslike pod of 40 passengers between airports and downtown-at costs competitive with ground travel...
...problem is that consensus arises only when the issue is personal and emotional. The injustice of the Southern racial system or napalm bombs falling on South Vietnamese villages invokes immediate indignation, while the many important questions of urban renewal, for instance, call for more cautious politics. The consensus theory thus imposes a limit on the number of concerns upon which a New Left group can focus. The young Democrats (YD's), by contrast, were able to discuss such issues as foreign aid and birth control as well as the standard SDS topics of Civil Rights and Vietnam during the current...