Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, in the House, an Administration bill to create a Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development. The vote was 217 to 184, comfortable enough for practical purposes but the closest squeeze of the year for one priority proposal for the Great Society. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are favorable. It would elevate to departmental status the Housing and Home Finance Agency and make its head man a Cabinet member. The present HHFA chief, Robert Weaver, a Negro, is the leading prospect for the new post...
...Washington University, Secretary of State Dean Rusk defended the Administration's policy in Viet Nam. At West Point, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, declared that the global mess was "not hopeless," while at Long Island University, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall sounded pretty hopeless about the urban mess. At the University of Iowa, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz remarked that "commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information...
...pressures of leadership in the cold war world; as the reaction of the nouveaux riches to the insecurity of constant acquisitiveness and precarious status; as the dislike by the remnants of the old Republican coalition (rural, midwest) for the New Deal generation and the Roosevelt coalition (urban, east); and as the hatred of the hyphened Americans (the Italian- and German-Americans) for the second-class citizenship imposed upon them by World War II (by attaching Communism, the thesis holds, these immigrant groups not only gained revenge against a hated enemy of their home country but acquired needed prestige in America...
Besides the Reverend Gilkey, participants in the service included the Reverend Bayard S. Clark '40 of the Urban Training Center in Chicago, Illinois, the Reverend Avery Dulles '40 from Woodstock, Maryland, and the Reverend John F. Hayward '40, professor of Theology at Meadville Theological School in Chicago...
...elegant hostess, moves purposefully through her rooms, rapid-firing opinions and prodding listeners' attention with a frequent "Don't you agree?" or "Don't you think so?" Again and again she reverts to her sense of urgency about the need for more flowers and plants. "Urban renewers don't seem to realize that people need space for trees and shrubs. They need flowers in the spring and berries in the fall it reassures and comforts them. Central Park should have thousands of cherry trees, and there aren't enough fountains We need an atomic reactor...