Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his regime, he started a $140 million urban renewal program, took the lead in improving housing for Negroes, persuaded the state to assume half the city's cost for federal highways. Celebrezze is unique among the nation's elected mayors in that his city has fewer employees than when he took office. This fast-rising career has not only equipped him with experience but with an attitude that should serve him well through the many frustrations that he surely will face at HEW. He once said: "It's frustrating to know, after being in office...
...found a candidate to face popular Nelson Rockefeller. Good G.O.P. possibilities: Ohio and Pennsylvania. Tossups: Michigan and Nixon's own California. But Nixon's prediction, however sanguine, threw sudden light on an interesting fact: the Democrats are not shoo-ins in the five states with the biggest urban vote...
...Taste of Honey is pressed from the bitterly squalid urban honeycombs of the English poor. Not a drop of meaning has been spilled in transferring the play by Britain's angry young woman, Shelagh Delaney, 23, from stage to screen...
...Taste of Honey is pressed from the bitterly squalid urban honeycombs of the English poor. Not a drop of meaning has been spilled in transferring the play by Britain's angry young woman, Shelagh Delaney, from stage to screen...
Without a Prayer. While whites can move about South Africa freely, Africans cannot move into an urban area for more than 72 hours without special permission. To qualify as a permanent resident of an urban area, an African must have either been born there or worked continuously for one employer for ten years. If he marries a woman from outside the area, she may not stay with him for more than 72 hours. Blacks in Johannesburg can own their own houses, but can only lease the land they stand on for 30 years. Whites in arrears with their rent...