Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living on pork and beans. While in high school, he taught grade school to pay his way. "Those were challenging days." he remembers. "Some of the children were older than I." When he at length became a much respected rural school superintendent. Mallory refused better-paying jobs with urban glamour. "I had an idea that you could work out as good a program for children here as anywhere else," he says. A "Teacherage." In 1947 the tiny Buffalo school district hit its debt limit and ran out of money. Without blinking, Mallory used his 20-year savings...
...housing commission probably will issue a special report at the next session of the Legislature, dealing with one of New York's major problems: the racial segregation that is a corollary of income segregation in urban housing guarantees a sharp critique, not a lame survey, of existing programs...
Ever since then he has attempted to appease the party regulars whom he alienated at the Chicago convention. His stand on President Kennedy's proposal to create a secretary of Urban Affairs is one example. When he served as chairman of President Eisenhower's committee to reorganize the Executive, Rockefeller issued a report which called the creation of such a post the necessary first step in any reorganization. However, when opposition to this proposal became the approved position of be Republican party, the Governor changed his mind, adopting his party's view...
...Urban has performed the operation on nearly 500 patients. His results show a material improvement in the survival rate over the level achieved with conventional radical mastectomy in advanced cases...
...economic, or a racial, or a social, outcast. In A Taste of Honey, Britain's Shelagh Delaney, then a semiliterate 18-year-old, gave tongue richly and scathingly to her bitterly impoverished girlhood in industrial Lancashire. Out of her background, she dramatically distilled a kind of urban folk poetry, humor and wisdom, and in a candidly observed relationship between a shiftless mother and a rebel daughter added fresh scenes to the eternal duelogue of parent and child. At 21, she turned again to the short and simple annals of the poor, which, in her vision, are long and squalid...