Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galbraith said that Kennedy's "versitile competence combined with courage and energy is surely what the great urban complex of the eastern seaboard requires of its representatives in Washington...
...urban renewal money, $15 million, will be used to buy the land in Kendall Square, demolish the present buildings, improve the area's utilities, and make general improvement--all in preparation for the NASA complex...
...mind, partly under persuasion from Scranton, partly because conservative businessmen, among them some of the Pennsylvania G.O.P.'s biggest financial benefactors, threatened to withhold their contributions unless he endorsed Goldwater. Since then, Scott has lukewarmly backed Barry in conservative western Pennsylvania, avoided all mention of Goldwater in urban areas...
...Back to Leopoldville from a week-long tour of his native Katanga flew Premier Moise Tshombe. He had ceaselessly exhorted rural Africans to till the land and urban Africans to keep their hands out of the till, and had been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining...
Blechman's first novel was a funny and sparely written example of that familiar genre, the satiric comedy of Jewish urban life. Stations is far more ambitious, and if it fails at last-too heavy, too short to teach the reader the symbols, and yet sometimes too obvious-it is more arresting than the bland small successes that are published by the dozen each week...