Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week Kennedy's old friend, Martin Luther King Jr., comparing the Kennedy record on civil rights with that of the Eisenhower Administration, said the New Frontier had merely substituted "an inadequate approach for a miserable one." In New York, Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, declared that it was time for the President to "place human rights above regional politics" and to "exhibit the kind of guts that he himself described in his book, Profiles in Courage." Author Baldwin has charged the Administration with "spinelessness," and has demanded that the Kennedys take a moral...
Theoretically, any male Roman Catholic who has reached the age of reason can be elected Pope. In practice, the possibilities have always been easily narrowed down to a chosen few: not since Urban VI (1378-89) has there been a Pope who was not a cardinal; not since Adrian VI of Holland (1522-23) has the church had a non-Italian Pontiff. But this time there are more papabili than Roman handicappers can readily rate. Next week's conclave, with 79 cardinals,-will be the largest since election of the Pope became the exclusive prerogative of the cardinals...
Despite the stone walls, the team emerged with a picture of a Russia that might be nearing "the stage of eventual breakthrough to a tolerably affluent urban society" but that is still addicted to production and marketing methods that are "economically screwy." Some day the West might find it a "cosier" country to live with, said the Economist. But for the present, "this is a country where free thinking is still a very timorous beastie...
...this sense Chestertown Negroes are unprepared for integration. They are small town Americans who have never received the local benefits which city people usually think of as a compensation for the narrowness of rural life. They cannot fully understand a set of arguments which were originally designed for urban communities, where Negroes had constantly been exposed to the sort of life that true equality can provide...
Although David Hammack's long essay on Urban Renewal in Boston reads occasionally like a Soc Sci 136 paper, it does manage to explore in considerable detail the politics and character of neighborhood redevelopment in the West End district and Charlestown. Hammack's work shows impressive familiarity with urban renewal problems on both the local and national levels...