Word: urbanize
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...only the indirect effects of development according to Heer which lead to an eventual depressing of the birth rate. Heer points to the increased cost of children in an industrial urban society where parents have to pay for the space children take up and the food they eat. In an agricultural society children may be used productively in the farm work, and there is no crucial space problem...
Boredom at Home Plate. From Fort Hamilton to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn today is an amorphous urban sprawl, the most populous (2,600,000 in 80.9 sq.mi.) and proletarian of all five boroughs that comprise New York City. The turning point probably came between the time Durocher left the Dodgers (1948) and the time the Dodgers left Flatbush (1958). Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a bicycle where home plate used to be. "You know," said Rodney, "baseball is a bore...
Seidman envisions a Young Dems composed of action committees, with members of each involved in actual organizational work in government programs: poverty, education, medicare, housing and urban renewal, civil rights. A few of these groups are operating now, and he hopes to have others soon, including one working with ABCD. He characterizes the whole program as "bridging the gap between the people who have PBH sympathies and the people who are someday going to be winning elections...
When the voters of North Carolina elected him governor in 1960, they believed they were choosing a moderate along the lines of outgoing Governor Luther H. Hodges over a segregationist, I. Beverly Lake. Appealing to urban voters, organized labor, Negroes, bankers, and manufacturers, Sanford soft-pedaled the race issue and emphasized his proposals to increase expenditures in education and to attract new industry into the state. His victory was built upon a doubly unfavorable platform of increasing taxes and facing race relations with "massive intelligence, not massive resistance...
...made public his desire to build a memorial appropriate to an urban area and his reluctance to use most of the 12-acre site for a park or plaza. He has said that controlled commercial development on the site is "quite important" to his plans for the complex...