Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...category-making so dear to journalism, the city generally comes under the file marked Problems. The subject suggests TV panels where earnest sociologists talk of urban renewal, of megalopolis, juvenile delinquency, blight, population movement and traffic. The mayors of these vast places seem to spend their time either shaking hands with somebody for the photographers or complaining of their burdens. TIME, a city-made product itself, takes up the subject this week by selecting, but not at random, the mayors of five U.S. cities-New York, Chicago, Boston, Houston and Los Angeles. Its cover story verifies the existence...
Many party regulars were willing to blame the President for at least part of the trouble. They are worried that he too often proposes legislation that he expects to be defeated-such as public-school aid, an urban affairs department at Cabinet level and a sweeping antirecession program-primarily to create campaign issues. To such men, Kennedy seems to be less interested in a bill's substance than in a label that appeals to voting blocs, such as the aged on medical care. More than one loyal Democrat is complaining that in his fascination for political maneuvering, Kennedy...
Never has the big city offered so much. And never before has it grappled with such problems-so complex and enormous that the President is fighting for a federal Department of Urban Affairs to help the nation's cities deal with them. "We are going to have an urban department," said John Kennedy. "It may not come this year, but in my opinion it will become as necessary and inevitable as the Department of Agriculture and HEW." Many people, in and out of the cities, take sharp issue with the President, holding that the cities are already doing...
...listening to the voice of the community before he takes any stand, reflects Houston's pride in private enterprise and self-reliance by saying: "I am not one to run to Washington with my hand out." The only one of the five mayors who opposes a Federal Urban Affairs Department, he welcomes the Government's presence in a limited sphere: NASA's decision to move its astronaut program to Houston, which inspired the Chamber of Commerce to subtitle the city "Space Center, U.S.A...
...nation a party message. They point to their record of responsible support for Administration foreign policy. They are pleased by the backfire of the Administration's crass political attempt to tag them as anti-city and anti-Negro in the move to establish a Department of Urban Affairs. They note that the House recently passed a Republican version of a manpower retraining bill that even Democrats conceded was far superior to the Administration bill. They strongly sense a national conservative trend-but they argue about how to take advantage of it. They fear-with reason-that the G.O.P...