Word: urbanize
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THERE is only one significant political party in Tanganyika: the Tanganyikan African National Union (TANU). In constitutional democracies of the West power structure is a horizontal spectrum of interests which overlap and conflict--rural and urban groups, business and labor, Republican and Democrat, numerous subdivisions. The decision making process is legislative, work- ing by compromise and accommodation of various interests, with certain common agreements as to the lengths that any majority coalition of interests can go in forcing its will on the minority...
Failure of Theory. Part of the Reds' difficulty lies in the historic background of Communism, which was invented by urban intellectuals and aimed at the industrial proletariat. In Das Kapital, Karl Marx scarcely mentioned the farm problem except to say that "large-scale industry in agriculture will destroy the bulwark of the social order, the peasant." Marx's successors have persisted in thinking that a farm is just a factory without walls, and that farmers are identical with workers on an assembly line...
Proof of the effectiveness of this system has been the electoral performance of Cambridge's only municipal political organization, the Civic Association. Although the adoption of many of its programs has helped the city build one of the better and cleaner urban governments in a state where these qualities are not exactly widespread, the CCA has never been able to elect more than four of the nine Councilors. These seats correspond roughly to the influence of the Harvard-Brattle-St.-M.I.T. district and the influence of the rest of Cambridge. Give or take a seat, it is a healthy balance...
...reply from the newspaper's executives said, "CRIMSON reporters would want to discuss issues that mean little to the other groups (urban affairs, educational policy, faculty appointments, graduates schools, building projects, etc.); and members of the other groups undoubtedly want to discuss issues of little direct concern to the CRIMSON...
...proect was launched early last summer after the appoinment of a Director, Norman Williams, Jr., formerly chief of the Office of Master Planning in New York City. Wilhelm V. von Moltke, chief designer of the city planning commission of Philadelphia, will be in charge of urban design...