Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cormack on civil rights, crime and corruption, and urban problems. A group of undergraduates in Winthrop House is also working with the committees...
...enormous appetite of businessmen for new office space is lifting the economy as well as the skylines of the U.S. From Honolulu to Boston, from New Orleans to Chicago, seldom have so many new towers changed the urban landscape or taken shape on architects' drafting boards and in corporate budgets...
...good will rankles many Finns, who remember two bitter wars against the Russians. But more important, the vote was an indication of the country's changing voting pattern: as more people leave farm and forest for jobs in Finland's burgeoning factories, they are switching to the urban-oriented Social Democrats, who rank as a middle-of-the-road party and promise to do something about inflation (up 4% last year) and better housing...
This week N.Y.U. passed the pivotal point in its drive toward urban-centered excellence. Hester announced that one of the school's trustees, Elmer H. Bobst, 81, has donated $6,000,000 to complete the financing of a new $20 million library to be built, providing city boards approve, on a plot bordering Washington Square...
...Lambert Pharmaceutical Co., finds the fuss over his gift "a little embarrassing." A lifetime library lover, he gave the money, he says, because of "my great faith in self-acquired education by reading." N.Y.U.'s Hester lustily applauds such faith in reading-and in the future of the urban university...