Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Mayor Robert F. Wagner asserted last night that the Supreme Court's recent reapportionment decision would help the cities in their fight to secure relief for urban problems. The Mayor dwelled on his own trouble as a Democratic mayor pitted against a "Republican state legislature dominated by rural districts and interests...
...state Republicans, Wagner chargod, "have no conception of the City's problems," know little of urban difficulties, and are opposed to relief of these problems. Because state governments have neglected urban problems, both Republican and Democratic mayors of large cities have turned to the federal government for assistance in handling their affairs, the Mayor claimed...
...served on a special commission that pruned the overgrown state agencies of Massachusetts. In 1952, after lecturing on government at Harvard, he became chairman of Washington's political science department. A practical scholar ungraced by a Ph.D., he co-directed a $300,000 study of St. Louis' urban problems, last year became dean of Washington's liberal arts college, and then a vice chancellor...
...biggest strike by public servants in U.S. history, more than half of New York City's 40,000 public-school teachers last week crippled the nation's biggest urban school system...
...Department of Architectural Sciences claims most of the nicknames: Arch Sci 20-21, Visual Composition, "Chaos and Confusion"; Arch Sci 105, The Development of Landscape Architecture, "Lawnmowers and Hedge Cutters"; Arch Sci 110, Introduction to Urban Planning, "Huts and Ruts"; and Arch Sci 124, Introduction to Design in the Visual Arts, "Spots and Dots" (a name often used for Fine Arts 171, Twentieth Century Painting...