Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...income provisions with Congressional leaders in advance-or simply by waiting to write them until after the funds were appropriated. At any rate, Robert Weaver, hitherto considered a leading candidate to become the U.S.'s first Negro Cabinet officer as Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development, could hardly have dealt the boss a more painful blow if he had tried...
Another great area of political opportunity lies in the steady conversion of the U.S. into an overwhelmingly urban nation. Soon, 73% of all Americans will live in 200 metropolitan areas. Nearly two-fifths will be citizens of just three great megalopolitan complexes-one ranging from Boston through New York, Philadelphia and Washington to Norfolk; another comprising all the territory between Milwaukee and Cleveland; the third taking in the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego. The cities and the suburbs that comprise the megalopolis have a vital mutuality of interest in housing, transportation, schooling, crime problems and employment...
Pusey said most church practices originated in "pre-industrial and pre-urban times and haven't adjusted to the modern world...
...earlier meeting had compiled a list of vacant seats available in various Boston schools. According to a 15-year-old school department policy, any Boston child can enroll in any Boston school with vacancies, once he gets a transfer slip from his neighborhood principal. Since the urban white districts tend to have an older population than the Negro areas, they frequently have vacant places in their schools...
Charges were dismissed this week against 11 North Harvard residents arrested for trying to block urban renewal last August. Action in the Massachusetts Legislature, also this week, improved chances that the Boston Redevelopment Authority's demolition program for North Harvard may be drastically revised...