Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reception honoring Miss McNamara was part of the seventh annual Urban Design Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The theme of this two-day conference is "The Shopping Center as a Nucleus of Inter-City Activity...
...bands in the mountains from 1957 to 1959 were neither a peasant nor a proletarian army. They never totaled more than a few hundred men, who goaded Batista into initiating a campaign of arbitrary terror that turned virtually the entire population against him. In the fighting which followed, the urban middle classes suffered more casualties than any other group. Castro's first cabinet consisted entirely of upper and middle class professionals and intellectuals...
...Most urban transit corporations, like the MTA and the New Haven Railroad, operate at huge losses and cannot afford the new facilities, the equipment and the more frequent schedules needed to attract more passengers. Consequently, revenue--and the level of equipment and service--continue to fall. The MTA carries far fewer people today than when it was formed in 1947, and it had a deficit last year of sixteen million dollars; the plight of the New Haven's commuter lines is well-known...
...would help solve a problem which cuts across state and local boundaries and which, if left alone, can only bring more financial burdens on debt-ridden local governments. Congress has long since appropriated $41 billion for highways which have done little to help and in some cases have aggravated urban traffic problems. It would make little sense for the House to refuse three-quarter billion dollars for mass transit systems which will clear up city streets...
...Bell accounts for nearly all the phones in nearly all the nation's urban areas; there are an additional 13,000,000 phones, divided among 2,845 companies serving mostly rural areas, where unlisted numbers are rare...