Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warned that hasty highway and urban changes might prove unwise and that "once we make the wrong decision we can never undo...
Williams actual speech was an un-emotional and factual discussion of the political and economic situation under apartheld. He said there were five basic facts about conditions in South Africa: that non-whites outnumber whites by four to one; that non-whites have a majority in both urban and rural areas; that blacks are detribalized to a large extent, and are moving into urban areas; that the black population is increasing faster than the white population; and that industry, which is owned by whites depends on cheap, non-white labor
...Chicago (463,516 pupils), which had a huge boycott last fall, a smaller one-day walkout this time faced seem ingly fatal opposition from Negro politicians and the Urban League. Nonetheless, boycott leaders mustered 126,350 pupils (beyond normal absences of 46,000). The numerical success suggested that Chicago's political leaders cannot much longer ignore the issue...
President Joao Goulart has just signed a decree doubling the monthly minimum wage for urban Brazilian workers to 42,000 cruzeiros, which is $68 on the official exchange rate and about $30 in actual buying power. The workers are glad to get the cash they need to chase rising prices, but the new move adds just another episode to the nightmare that businessmen must endure to survive in Brazil. Says William Jones, general manager of Remington Rand in Brazil: "Every executive here should read Through the Looking Glass at least once each week-especially that part where Alice is told...
...mainly geographical. The hall was built three blocks from the home he has occupied for nearly 40 years, and Monk serenely regards the choice of the site as a favor to him from the city fathers, a personal convenience, along with the new bank and the other refinements that urban renewal has brought to his old turf. The neighborhood, in Manhattan's West 60s, is called San Juan Hill. It is one of the oldest and most decent of the city's Negro ghettos. Monk's family settled there in 1924, coming north from Rocky Mount, N.C., where Thelonious...