Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given much time and thought to its organization and objectives. I hope that all students of Harvard will respond promptly, understandingly, and generously to the cause and at same time derive a sense of pride in sharing a fundamental responsibility with the welfare agencies of Cambridge and the larger urban area of which Harvard is so much a part...
...Reluctant Yes. While running Bridgeport with genuine affection (he opposed urban renewal, recalls a longtime aide, "because he resented the thought that anything in Bridgeport needed to be renewed-that would mean it wasn't perfect"), McLevy yearned for bigger things. In all he ran for public office 54 times in 58 years, including 15 times for Governor, twice for the U.S. Senate. He was always defeated for higher office, and finally even Bridgeport turned him down. The city's 25,000 schoolchildren desperately needed new buildings: its housing shortage could no longer be denied. Reluctantly, McLevy raised...
...Urban housing starts recovered from a deep slide in September to score a 17% rise in October, when they ran at an annual rate of 1,460,000 (see below...
...Kennedy Administration's economists made some extravagantly incorrect predictions about the course of the U.S. economy for 1962, but they were right on the nose with their forecasts for housing. A year ago, the Administration predicted that urban starts of new houses and apartment units would rise about 9% during 1962, to a total of some 1,400,000. Last week's report from the Commerce Department strongly indicates that the final total will hit that mark...
...Atlanta's schools, lunch counters, and other public facilities, Galphin noted that Georgia itself has seen in the last year the abolishment of the county-unit system of primary voting. The system for years enabled staunch segregationists to be elected by favoring the rural counties over the more liberal urban vote. This summer, combined statewide vote tabulations resulted in the selection of the moderate Carl Sanders as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate over the radical segregationist Marvin Griffin...