Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Squabbles & Scandals. Many of Johnson's vaunted Great Society programs are either in limbo or in trouble. Despite his zealous advocacy of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the agency has been languishing for lack of a director from its day of birth. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has become an unmanageable sprawl of competing and overlapping fiefdoms...
...Urban desegregation and educational upgrading cannot long remain the sole responsibility of inner school systems," the report states. "In some cases, the central city is beginning to run out of while children in its public schools...
Rumor has it that Detroit's Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, has been number one on President Johnson's list of possible Secretaries of the New Housing and Urban Affairs Department. Cavanagh, as one of the outstanding mayors in the nation, is an obvious choice for the new Cabinet post. At the same time, the Mayor has such a strong and promising political base in Detroit that he probably doesn't want a merely appointive...
...also endorsed government restrictions on the manufacture of "unnecessary luxuries" and urban planning to reduce transportation costs...
...Wolfe calls California the most American states Certainly the socio-economic trends that have been sweeping the state in the postwar year--vast urban sprawl, a sublimation of ethnic and class differences, an utter dependence on the automobile--have foreshadowed what is happening in the rest of the country...