Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champion vote getter. Mrs. Hicks, a lawyer, had attracted a good deal of attention by insisting that in Boston "there is no de facto segregation." She piled up 20,000 more votes than able Mayor John Collins, 44, who won re-election by pointing to his record of massive urban renewal...
Toscanini to Pucci. The Italian presence is ever more inescapable in modern-day Argentina. Statues of Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Columbus populate large urban plazas. Street names run from "Venecia" and "Milán" to "José Verdi" and "Arturo Toscanini." Newsstands are thick with Italian magazines, bars flow with Campari, coffee shops with café alia italiana, and restaurateurs serve up steaming hot pizzas, ravioli and pasta frolla-even if they cannot always spell the names. Argentine men favor Italian-style stovepipe trousers and moccasins; many women are forsaking French styles for designers like Simonetta and Pucci...
...exhibit of urban redevelopment plans will open in Huntington Hall on November...
...garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine has a social conscience, we don't play a very active role...
...epidemic of dengue for 20 years, but Public Health Service officials are worried that a single infected traveler might reseed the virus in mainland mosquitoes. The usual carrier is the urban and suburban mosquito Aëdes aegypti, also the carrier of yellow fever. It is found in at least nine Southern states, where it breeds in cans, old tires and holes in trees...