Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...direct-mail appeals, or from book royalties and speaking appearances by King, who raises as much as $10,000 from a single talk. Oddly enough, S.C.L.C. figures that it lost money because King got the Nobel Peace Prize: it kept him away from his normal speaking schedule. > The National Urban League is the most comfortable of all, figures easily to raise $1,900,000 this year. Last year it collected $225,000 more than it did in 1963, credits its strong financial condition to the fact that its support comes from foundations, federal grants, prosperous Negro and white businessmen, labor...
Foes of the underpasses presented more than 20 people to support the new legislation. Quoting frequently from President Johnson and President Kennedy on the need for open urban spaces, they declared the State faced two alternatives: turn Memorial Drive into a "limited access expressway"--a move that they warned would destroy valuable river-front recreation area--or leave the drive...
...factors--the possibility that the Kennedy Memorial Library will be located on the Bennett St. MBTA yards and the recent emphasis President Johnson has placed on open urban spaces--have given underpass opponents cause for cautious optimism in this year's legislative battle...
...north, who represent 40% of the nation's population; it is also the tongue of leaders of the Congress Party, headed by Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. Under the new law, official business now must be carried out in Hindi, and civil servants, India's largest urban labor force, are granted higher seniority status for learning it. But in southern India, where 111 million people speak four different, Dravidian languages - Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam - there is frustrated opposition to the law. Along with suicides, there were riots, bus burnings, and demonstrations. Before they ended, 1,500 people...
Only for the Rich. All the activity is giving realty development a new look. Amid the longest urban land boom in U.S. history, the price of land around the fringes of growing cities has risen anywhere from 100% to 2,000% in the past ten years. With freeways opening up exurban spaces, land development is not only spreading farther from downtown but growing in scale. The old-style developer, rich in imagination but thinly financed, can scarcely afford to participate today, at least not without wealthy partners. As long as the tax rules make real estate an enticing...