Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower support prices for larger, prosperous farmers, and higher ones for smaller growers. No matter what Johnson dreams up to mold the U.S. agricultural mess to fit the shape of a Great Society, 1965 farm legislation will be a sticky problem. Says Carl Albert: "This will be an urban-oriented Congress-and that means trouble for farm bills...
...URBAN AFFAIRS: In 1961 John Kennedy proposed a Cabinet office to watch over the Government's city-oriented programs such as urban renewal and commuter transportation, as well as the federal complex of housing agencies. He was slapped down at least partly because Southern Congressmen suspected he was doing it to get Federal Housing and Home Finance Administrator Robert Weaver, a Negro, into the Cabinet. Weaver is still waiting in the wings, although Johnson has not committed himself as to who will occupy the post if it is created. Johnson will probably get this one through eventually...
City Planner. "I sort of fancy myself as a troubleshooter," says Meyerson. In one of his books an important topic is "decision making in the face of conflict." A native of New York City, he studied urban planning at Harvard (M.C.P., '49) after graduating from Columbia College. He has taught at Chicago, Pennsylvania and Harvard, served on U.N. urban-planning missions in Japan and Indonesia, was a consultant on the reconstruction of Skoplje, the Yugoslavian city devastated by an earthquake in 1963. In manner Meyerson is shy and whimsical. One close friend says of him that "his favorite word...
Eliot achieved some of his strongest effects by stringing together what seem to be banalities. But the banalities were chosen with such cool precision that they grew in the mind to be images of modern urban alienation. Then, typically, they were thrown into sudden contrast with images of romance and the glories of the past...
...architect for the Kennedy Library, has done considerable urban renewal work. He was selected to design the Library, in part, because of his familiarity with city problems. It was felt that he would be able to cope with difficulties created by the Library and the huge number of visitors it is expected to attract...