Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor who died in office), Collins later headed the Federal Community Relations Service, which was set up by the 1964 Civil Rights Act to provide inter-racial conciliation; he is now U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce. According to the St. Petersburg Times's statewide poll of urban residents, LeRoy Collins today would get 59% of the vote v. 21% for Slick Burns, with 20% undecided. Collins was clearly interested. Having sniffed the political air since election day, he non-announced last week: "If I run for this job, I'm going to run because I think there...
...James Reston reported from Vietnam three months ago, the people in the countryside consider their rulers in Saigon "as merely the successors of the French colonial regime with upper-class urban Vietnamese replacing the French." The escalation of the war has served to intensify this split between Saigon and the countryside. American soldiers on leave spend thousands of dollars daily in the city, while the fields are constantly despoiled by battles and bombings. Red China, to fan the flames, issued a manifesto in September which specifically described the "war of liberation" as a revolt of the agrarian classes against...
...rubles a month to 50 to 60 rubles a month; instead it has only recently been raised to 40 to 45 rubles a month ($44.40 to $50). Most serious for the Soviets, for whom cramped accommodation (less than 8 sq. meters of living space per capita is the urban average) and lack of privacy are the greatest physical hardships, is the fact that the seven-year plan's target for urban residential construction (650 to 660 million sq. meters) will be underfulfilled by at least...
...increasingly relied on the Defense Secretary to act as unofficial brevet deputy President. McNamara fills the part so well that the pundits last week were speculating that Johnson might put McNamara in some other strategic post, perhaps the unfilled job as Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development as a base from which to organize and oversee the Great Society's vast new domestic programs...
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is more than a song title to the seminarians and ministers at Chicago's Urban Training Center for Christian Mission. Shortly after they enroll, they take "the plunge." They are sent out with just $8, to live and work for four days in the slums surrounding the center's headquarters on Ashland Avenue. "It's sort of shock treatment," explains the center's director, Episcopal Father James P. Morton. "It puts them in situations where they're forced to listen instead of spouting, as they're used...