Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predominantly urban New Jersey, taken-for-granted Republicans went heavily Democratic because the G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate seemed more interested in getting a Marxist history professor fired than in facing up to pressing statewide problems. Long-docile Democrats in Philadelphia chopped a tentacle off the "Octopus of Walnut Street," as their tired machine is unlovingly known, by electing a District Attorney on the Republican ticket. A Democrat surprised everybody by getting himself elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and Republicans did the same in Binghamton, N.Y., Waterbury and New Britain, Conn., and Akron, Ohio...
...blow to Boston's Negroes was the defeat of School Committee Member Arthur Gartland, the one board member who Negroes felt was sympathetic to their cause. - >In New Haven, Democratic Mayor Richard C. Lee, 49, the brains and muscle power behind the city's model $390 million urban-renewal program, handily won his seventh consecutive two-year term, beating his Republican challenger 33,992 to 17,099. - In Akron, home town of G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, Republicans captured the mayor's office for the first time since 1951. The victor: John S. Ballard, 43, a onetime...
Calling Washington "our partner," McKeldin appealed for widespread federal aid to the cities for anti-poverty and urban renewal programs. However, he opposed the construction of high-rise apartments to house displaced slum-dwellers. He noted Baltimore's success in the use of city-owned houses and walk...
...predicting that the U.S.'s automobile explosion would eventually overtake the country's highway system and bring traffic to a full stop. They did not allow for U.S. enterprise. On the East Coast, the continent's most congested traffic corridor and the world's biggest urban sprawl, a motorist can now whip along the 435-mile route between Washington and Boston without ever encountering a stop light...
...National Teacher Corps of 6,000 professional teachers, either alone or in teams, which would provide teaching services in urban and rural school districts with high concentrations of low-income families. (Appropriations for the Teacher Corps for this year were voted down by Congress, but will probably be included in the supplemental appropriations bill of next spring...