Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there are many things to be done. Among them, the poverty program must be expanded, the Alliance for Progress reevaluated. A Vietnam policy more adequately formulated. The Civil Rights Law enforced. Related problems of urban housing and education attacked. Long-range unemployment and technological change examined. Medicare passed. Facilities for higher education doubled. And, what will put the most stress on Johnson's resolve, both the tax structure and the organization of Congress must be reformed...
Against Rockefeller, a onetime trustee of the Urban League, Faubus has also returned to the all-out segregationist stands that made him a national figure in 1957. Last month he shouted about Negro demonstrators: "The first time they lie down in the streets to block traffic of a legitimate business, they're going to get run over. And if no one else will do it, I'll get in a truck and do it myself...
Only One New York is a safari through the urban jungle. It was written and faultlessly photographed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, the French explorer who led a 1959 expedition to the head-hunting wilderness of Dutch New Guinea and returned with the remarkable documentary, The Sky Above-The Mud Below. His new film attempts to explore New York City in much the same way. "Never has there been a city in the world like this," glows Gaisseau, as his camera ogles the sheer canyons of lower Manhattan. "It occurs to me that people who expect a bomb to fall...
...mistake in strategy--bowing too easily to what he considered the political reality; but his commitment never wavered. He did more than any Attorney General in history to make America's legal system responsive to the needs of the indigent. He concerned himself with the complex problem of urban poverty through his promotion of social experiments like New York's Haryou-Act. When he limited the FBI's activities to investigation instead of prosecution, he succeeded where his predecessors had failed...
That Kennedy cannot vote in New York does mean he does not understand its problems. Today the entire Northeastern seabord shares the same crises--urban blight, overcongestion, rising crime rates, and a lack of adequate transportation. The problems of Boston and Washington differ only in size and complexity not in kind. New York, never a bastion of provincialism, should welcome the best talent available, and Robert Kennedy in his role of a proponent for a mass transportation bill and for new approaches to the attack on poverty showed a fundamental understanding a megalopolis. Homegrown mediocrity is not substitute for imported...