Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...values his political independence, in at least one sense Vellucci is a servant. His strong vote-getting area--his "district"--is the predominantly Italian community in East Cambridge, and he is its weathervane. Two years ago the City proposed an urban renewal project for the year. The local residents strongly objected; so did Vellucci. Now, a new plan devised with cooperation of a representative local neighborhood group, has been worked out. It has Vellucci's support. If it ever loses that support, you can bet it will also have lost the neighborhood's endorsement...
...prodded by the gains of the Mississippi Project, SCLC is planning a ten-week summer program this year which may transform the organization. Its Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE) aims to send some 600 volunteers into about 70 rural Black Belt and urban counties in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to conduct programs in voter registration, adult literacy, and political education...
...vote the committee rejected motion that would have prohibited NASA from spending any money on the laboratory until it could acquire title the entire 29-acre plot in Kendall square. The plot has already been eligible for an urban renewal , and Cambridge Mayor Edward Crane '35 has estimated that it will about eight months for the City transfer a "beachhead" to NASA...
Funds will also finance an additional 11 to 15 faculty members to expand research and graduate study. Special emphasis will be placed on strengthening urban legal studies, criminal law and criminology, and foreign legal systems...
...Program in Urban Legal Studies will be established to treat the law's relation to housing, health, education, crime, recreation, and other similar areas. Two chairs of professors in Urban Legal Studies will be endowed at a cost of $1 million. The Committee asked $50,000 a year to bring eight to ten graduate lawyers to work in this area. Administrative expenses and the cost of supporting a number of other research fellows brings the total program's total budget to $2,250,000 over a ten year period...