Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats-and they have stepped up their fire on Rockefeller. In Atlanta last week to deliver the commencement address at Spelman College, a Negro institution for women.- Rockefeller quietly but effectively answered Democratic National Chairman John Bailey's demagogic charge that he had opposed a federal department of urban affairs because of racial feelings against its proposed head, Housing Administrator Robert Weaver, a Negro. Noting his and his family's long and distinguished record on civil rights. Rocky said: "I speak from a family-ingrained conviction whose roots are deep indeed. It is for this reason that...
...national policy, music today, some new frontiers in scientific research, and architecture and city planning. At 9 a.m., in Fogg Large Lecture Room, Jose Luis Sert, dean of the Faculty of Design, and three 25th reunioners--W. Brooks Cavin, Jr., Robert A. Little, and William Bentinck-Smith--will view urban planning with special reference to the University...
...amazing repair of the Divinity School, the staunch defense of academic freedom when threatened by McCarthyism and the NDEA; holding the Ivy League together during trying times; launching and completing a gigantic capital funds drive when Harvard and higher education needed the shot in the arm: "building high" when urban crowdedness demanded it; alerting this university and others to the dangers of Federal aid; recognizing the new international character of the modern American university...
...most effect on urban populations that have been predisposed to the actions of pollen by such stimuli as auto exhaust fumes, chimney smoke and smog...
...average young minister lately out of theological seminary does not, as a rule, look for assignment to a rundown church in the midst of an urban slum. But that was just what Robert W. Castle Jr. had in mind. Graduating from New Haven's Berkeley Divinity School, crew-cut Episcopalian Castle put in five years at two suburban New Jersey parishes, chafed all the while for a city mission. Then he was asked to take over St. John's in Jersey City, a crumbling brownstone and granite edifice which the Episcopal diocese of Newark had thought of shutting...