Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea-and the idealism-behind the Job Corps stems from the old CCC camps of the '30s. The kids will sign on for one-or two-year stints, move into rural "camps" (to be built in U.S.-owned parks or forests) or urban "centers" (mostly abandoned military barracks near cities). Forty-one sites in 21 states have been picked, about 130 are projected for completion by next June. Governors can veto Job Corps installations in their states if they wish, but so far none have. Still, Shriver has had his problems with local folks. In Yorktown, Va., last September...
...dizzying changes of industrialization, Buddhist laymen have seized on the widespread yearning for new values to form Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society). Staging great circuses with acrobats, brass bands and dancing girls, Soka Gakkai has recruited over 13 million adherents, largely from Japan's lower middle class and urban-poor discontents. Tightly regimented, from family squads on up, they must vote for the sect's political candidate as a religious duty...
...entirely in sympathy with the stand taken by the North Harvard Community. I cannot suppress a sneaking curiosity as to how many of the students in that area have, unthinkingly, used the high sounding phrase "Property Rights Or Human Rights?" at some time in the past. The Urban Renewal problem dramatically domonstrates that, in our society, the right to the unhindered use and possession of property is among the most important of human rights. David Friedman...
...private market which has had some success in meeting their needs and even whose injustices are carried out by men who admit to doing well instead of pretending to do good. Direct exploitation by a slumlord is easier to accept or battle against than the hypocrasies of an urban renewal program which declares that "we can't let people live like that" (in vauable real estate) and proceeds to throw them out to make way for expensive housing. Steve Goldin...
Outside the Redgates' small store is a sign erected more than two years ago, when the BRA first indicated it wanted the North Harvard area for a renewal project. The sign reads: "TO HELL WITH URBAN RENEWAL, IT IS LEGALIZED THEFT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY. WE SHALL DEFEND OUR HOMES WITH OUR LIVES...