Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensing the Frenchman's mounting impatience with inconvenience and inertia, Gaullists have ambitious schemes for rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister...
...According to many witnesses, Father Giuseppe flew more than a hundred times. He flew when he had a mystical experience, and sometimes he flew for a considerable distance. Once in an ecstasy he flew about twelve paces over the head of a Spanish grandee. Once he flew for Pope Urban VIII. Several times he flew with a friar in his arms, and once, according to some not unimpeachable sources, he flew about 70 yds., picked up a 36-ft. cross that ten men could not lift, and stood it upright "as if it were a straw." Naturally enough, the Franciscans...
Racial discrimination in employment opportunities is a problem plaguing Negro communities throughout the urban areas of the Northeast. Laws designed to eliminate biased hiring procedures are easily evaded and provide little check on employers. This is the case in Massachusetts...
Students Aid Urban League...
This fall students from local colleges formed the Boston Action Group (BAG) to aid the Urban League and other organizations examining employment practices in the area. The new Civil Rights Coordinating Committee has chosen the BAG project as one of the three for which it will provide volunteer workers...