Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Cambridge City Council yesterday urged that the city act to acquire the Bennett St. MTA Yards under the Urban Renewal Act because "there is now nothing to prevent Harvard University from grabbing all the land for educational purposes...
Congressional conservatives are preparing a Procrustean bed for the President's program--his Urban Affairs Department, his trade proposals, and his health care bill. In shelving the President's proposal for an Urban Affairs Department, the House Rules Committee fired the first shot in the expected Congressional battle over that program, though on an unexpected front. The action resembled somewhat the South's firing on Fort Sumter 101 years ago: it began a struggle which had to come, but came as a bit of a surprise...
...President expressed his surprise at the Committee's decision in a press conference the next day, singling out as objects of his astonishment the Republican members of the body. He was surprised that they didn't show more solicitude for urban and Negro voters: they evidently hadn't learned the lesson of the Presidential election...
Republican opposition to the Urban Affairs Department may be assumed typical of the Conservative line on the rest of the program. The terms of the opposition are depressing, because Mr. Kennedy's program implies his opinion that no one seriously believes in these old conservative homilies any more. He assumes agreement between the President and the people that the U.S. can no longer consider itself the fragile legal invention conservative formulas claim to protect and defend...
...figure out the logic behind the position is, however, difficult. In a column on the subject, Walter Lippmann gave up: he concluded that, in their stand on the Urban Affairs Department, the Republican had simply made a mistake. Indeed, there is something mindless (or at least, unreflecting) about their choice of a position...