Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prediction is easy to make. Urban areas--and suburbs more often than cities--will send more Representatives to Congress than at present. In Georgia and Texas, the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas, will each gain an additional Congressman. However, the Court has not demanded immediate redistricting (which would interfere with 1964 elections), and these Representatives will not arrive in Washington till...
...estimated membership of from one to six million members and assets of $2 million. The depression and Garvey's deportment by the federal government weakened the organization, but did not completely kill it, Epps explained. He noted that many chapters are still active in New York and other urban centers...
Democratic Deadlock. In his 2,500-word address, Scranton ran down an imposing list of "failures which dot the national landscape," from unemployment and poverty to civil rights and urban blight. For all of them, he said, the Democratic Party, which has been in the majority for most of the past 32 years, must be held accountable. "Our democracy is deadlocked, and the deadlock in the Democratic Party is the chief reason...
...Marcellus, in favor of the Black Muslim "X," Clay checked into Harlem's Hotel Theresa, once the Manhattan headquarters of Fidel Castro. He cut a rock-'n'-roll disk for Columbia, passed out free Florida oranges in Times Square, sounded off to reporters on everything from urban renewal ("If I lived in Harlem, I'd move to Long Island") to his relations with the opposite sex: "Like you take a guy cruising along in a Cadillac with $10,000 in the pockets of his mohair suit. He's got it made. Then a woman crosses...
...typical catalogue buyer in 1964 is an urban dweller, shops by telephone rather than by mail or drops in at special catalogue stores that deliver merchandise quickly from a central warehouse. The customer profits by lower prices and a wider selection than most stores can offer, and companies are attracted to catalogue selling by the saving in inventory, rent and labor costs. A company expects to glean an average of $35 in sales from each big book, which costs $2 to produce and may contain as many as 140,000 items-from a Mexican burro to the 1928 Model...