Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think he has a sense of responsibility." On domestic issues, Dirksen has skillfully and successfully opposed the President whenever Kennedy played obvious partisan politics. Prime examples were the Republican votes that defeated Kennedy's medicare program and the Administration attempt to set up a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs (which was to be headed by a Negro). Democrat Kennedy is fond of blaming Republicans for the failures of the New Frontier's programs in the current Congress. But there is another side to that coin. It has been only with Republican votes that the Ad ministration...
Boumedienne learned to kill as an urban terrorist and later as a guerrilla in the mountains. At 32 he commanded all the rebel forces in western Algeria. He admits only one regret: the war's fratricidal purges in which, says he, "I had to send thousands of comrades to their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist...
...already has a few months' Senate seniority. Merrow, after 20 years in the House, has a well-oiled local organization, is accused by his opponents of voting more like a Democrat than a Republican. A dry ex-schoolteacher, he explains: "If federal money for Rye, for Portsmouth, for urban renewal in Manchester, and for better sewage disposal plants in many communities in our state is 'pork,' then I am for 'pork...
Swift saw the situation and answered reassuringly in a soft urban fog made more casual by the experienced slur of a 55-year-old. "Is it a lead pencil or a mechanical pencil?" he asked. At least 3,000 tons of worry visibly lifted from the ad man's forehead. "Is it round or hexagonal?" Swift went on gently. "Does it have an eraser?" He got the job. And what did the pencil finally sound like? "Literate," recalls Swift, "-and thin...
...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...