Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 97 million inhabitants, is five times as populous. Moreover it is caught up in a vast migration from rural areas to cities, especially to the 350-mile-long megalopolis stretching from Tokyo to Osaka. The result is a spiraling real estate inflation that has lifted Japan's urban-land price index 670% since 1955, has made land in Japan the most expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about $9,000,000 in choicest Manhattan...
Unwanted Vacation. Unlike Du Bay, a lowly parish assistant, Coffield is widely respected in Los Angeles as a longtime pastor learned in modern Catholic theology and devoted to youth work and urban renewal. Last May he began to preach against Proposition 14, a referendum to void state laws against racial discrimination in housing by establishing the "absolute discretion" of any property holder to "decline to sell, lease or rent" to anyone. About the same time, Coffield invited a San Francisco Biblical scholar to speak to a group of priests. Weeks later, the cardinal told him that the invitation violated canon...
...Berkeley for only six months. He was appointed to the faculty last July as dean of environmental studies. Previously a member of the Harvard Faculty, he had been acting dean of the Graduate School of Design, and had been director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...intense preoccupation with America, he replies: "I must prove that I can lead the country before I can lead the world." Already, he has had 15 or 16 task forces studying what "bold new steps," in the President's words, can be taken in such fields as urban renewal, trade, transportation, agriculture. In his Great Society speech at the University of Michigan last May, he addressed himself eloquently...
...audience? Jones seems like a man who needs an enemy so badly that the nearest friend will do. His true target in these plays is the well-intentioned liberal intellectual with namby-pamby notions of cozy, overnight, instant brotherhood. The Toilet's depiction of Negroes as semi-cretinous urban cannibals is calculated to affront precisely those white racial ameliorators who passionately argue that Negroes are not like that...