Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government departments, despite Johnson's orders last August to all federal organizations to set up Pentagon-style computerized cost-analysis systems. The C.E.D. also faulted Congress, pointing out that it rarely debates overall policy questions implicit in the budget, such as a "rational balance" between space exploration and urban renewal, which might facilitate longer-range financing. Instead, the budget is studied piecemeal in subcommittees run by "strong chairmen not committed to a common program or even to common goals...
After unanimous Senate confirmation of Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of the new Housing and Urban Devel opment agency, the President swore in his first Negro Cabinet member in a grandiose East Room ceremony illuminated for TV's benefit by 27 spotlights. Johnson used a huge new electronic lectern with hidden microphones and retractable prompter screens that newsmen dubbed "Mother." (One correspondent asked if it could cook Lyndon's breakfast.) When Weaver had been duly anointed, Johnson produced a surprise by announcing that Lincoln Gordon, 52, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil since 1961, would succeed Peace Corps Director Vaughn...
...countries, the corps has grown apace, now has 10,380 volunteers at work in 46 countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela. Its annual appropriation has risen from $30 million to this year's $114.1 million. Fifty percent of the Corpsmen are teachers, the rest are involved in rural and urban-community development, health projects, agriculture and public works...
...request federal action against" the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Trades Council under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, marking the first time that this law has been invoked against a union. "The labor movement is all for the civil rights movement," said Sherwood Ross, an official of the Washington, D.C., Urban League. "But when it comes to getting Negroes into the highly skilled building crafts, labor sings The Star-Spangled Banner in the front of the union hall and Dixie in the back...
...Best Authority. No obligation perhaps, but the President was not about to let reporters pick up the implication that he simply did not like trying to handle them en masse. So he promptly called a conference-with TV, the whole Cabinet, and even the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on hand...