Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years since he went to the Governor's mansion in Cheyenne as a far-right-winger, Hansen has driven through the legislature a herd of programs to which the state G.O.P. was fundamentally opposed. He asked for and got an urban-renewal plan, an increase in the state sales tax and a boost in the state minimum wage from 75? to $1. Under Hansen, appropriations for state programs to combat alcoholism and mental illness jumped by more than 50%. The going has not always been smooth. "My opposition," says Hansen, "seems to forget that this is the 20th...
...north gate to the majestic Hudson Highlands.* Governor Rockefeller, who had earlier supported the $162 million Con Ed project, backed off after his brother criticized it, said that "if another solution can be found, it should be." The commission chided local government for failure to request federal beautification and urban-renewal money, noted that the latter could open up rotting waterfronts and create little "fishermen's wharves" along the river...
Another reason for a more realistic appraisal of divorce laws is a deeper understanding of what causes marital breakups. While sex, money and incompatibility are the traditional reasons for divorce, a mobile and changing urban society has loosened many of the bonds that once held marriage together, depriving men of their absolute dominance, giving women a large measure of economic independence and weakening the sense of kinship. Marriage means happiness to Americans-and its inevitable problems seem to catch them by surprise. Mistakes are also easier to make in a day when mating is more random than ever. Unlike...
...Niemans enrolling in "standard Nieman courses," the one course that attracted the largest number of Niemans this year as their course for "credit"--the one in which they do all the work--was Dr. Martha Derthick's course in Urban Politics. This is her first course at Harvard. Three of the 19 Niemans were at of the diversity of the group...
...committee headed by Dr. William M. Schmidt of the School of Public Health and Mrs. Katherine G. Clark of the Center for Urban Studies will press for passage of a new Massachusetts birth-control bill...