Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where's Auntie? But where else can these children go? Who can be found to take care of them? The once standard live-in aunt or grandmother of an older time and more rural economy no longer exists. In today's crowded urban apartment, there is no room for her. Naturally, the problem is concentrated in the lower-income groups, where the father cannot make enough to support the family singlehanded. It is also acute in disheveled families where Father may be here today and gone tomorrow, leaving Mother to cope with the rent and the grocery bill...
...only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer but a major contender for the feminine folk-music crown, second only to Baez among today's flock of urban folk stylists and perhaps first to have lived the songs before learning to sing them...
...average consumer is making 20% more money since the expansion began, and his disposable personal in come - the amount left after taxes -has risen a little more than that. An urban family of four whose income was $8,000 three years ago now receives about $9,300. With costs relatively steady and economic fears fading (60% of U.S. families say they have no financial worries, v. 50% in 1961), house holds are spending 920 out of every dollar. This year, Americans are expected to increase their spending by $30 billion, compared with the $18 billion rise last year...
Meanwhile, several business firms in the Kendall Square area appear to be organizing opposition to the city's taking their property for the urban renewal project that will be tied to NASA's location here...
...City can only offer NASA the necessary land at a reasonable price if it can appropriate the land as part of a redevelopment project, under the terms of the Urban Renewal Act. And the act stipulates that at least half the buildings in a proposed site must be industrially blighted...