Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum is $1,080. The poverty line is $3,130 for an urban family of four, $2,200 for a farm family. Only 30% of America's 32 million poor are nonwhite-but that 30%, mostly Negro, represents half of the entire non-white population of 20.9 million. Some 13.9 million children under 15 live in needy families. One-quarter of the aged, and half...
...handy device for defusing tense urban ghettos. By the end of June, it will have employed 603,000 boys and girls at a cost of $391 million. It has worked so well that some House Democrats would like to give it more than $550 million for the year beginning July 1. Much of the money would be spent to ease racial unrest in the 21 "high-tension" U.S. cities...
...twelfth among all nations. The life expectancy of U.S. men is only 18th in the world. In ratio of doctors to population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason is that the poor, the Negroes and other minority groups do not get the medical care available to most of the population...
Irwin was not insulted; he was delighted to put up with the putdown. Unimpressible Jewish mothers-and surly children, complaining wives, urban sprawl and the 20th century-have been his bread and butter ever since he changed his name to Alan King and became, successively, a big-time comic, author, actor, producer and all-round impresario...
...Boston School Committee meet the "radical proposal on redistricting drafted by the Harvard M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, Thomas S. Eisenstadt, Committee Chairman, said yesterday...