Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds for parochial schools-or at least a long-range, low-interest loan program integrated into the bill-changed all that. By last week, as the mail mounted and both House and Senate education subcommittees held hearings on the bill, most congressional palms were clammy. Congressmen from urban areas-whether liberal or conservative, Protestant or Catholic-were wondering how they could save the bill and not seem hostile to the church; many rallied strongly to Kennedy's stand that the loans were unconstitutional-and hoped that their voters would remember the President's religion. To make decision more...
...fine talk of welfare, urban housing and the unemployed, the first U.S. citizens who are likely to collect heavily from the New Frontier are those old reliables, the farmers. Last week the feed-grain bill, the first of President Kennedy's 16 emergency bills, was steered through House and Senate. House and Senate differences will be compromised this week, but the net promise is for an increase in price supports for corn (from $1.06 to $1.20) and grain sorghums for farmers who cut back their acreage from 20% (House version) to 30% (Senate version). In lieu of grain...
...Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies will begin work in its contract with the Venezuelan government as soon as a project director is agreed upon...
...Joint Center, in cooperation with Venezuelan officials and experts, will analyze the economic structure and potential of the Guayana region as a basis for determining the requirements for housing, for industry and commerce, for public services including utilities and transportation, and for the pattern of urban and regional growth...
...city-wide ad hoc committee to study recreational facilities and a smaller group studying community organization as it relates to urban renewal may provide the catalyst for redevelopment in Cambridge...