Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances are that whenever University-oriented city planners, the Cambridge Advisory Council, or the Cambridge Historical Council rise up against any urban redevelopment, a genial but shrewd character will be at the bottom of it all. Synonymous with the idea of buildings on stilts, with plans for a $100 million project to fill in the Charles River Basin, and with what his enemies might term radical change in general is the name of John Briston Sullivan...
...laconic Sullivan still owns and pays taxes on forty acres of land under water in front of M.I.T. Technically, he is in the "renovating business," which might be called unilateral urban renewal. From his small, brick-front office up Concord Street, he promotes the development of open and run-down areas and holds forth against what he regards as the forces of tenacious conservatism, led by Harvard, a propertied dog in the manger...
Sullivan is all for urban renewal and cooperative housing (a major feature of the New Haven program), but himself will not undertake projects on the run-down outskirts of the city. "I don't want to displace people who can't afford it." Also, as Harvard knows, land is extremely expensive out there. To develop it properly, he believes, the city would have to take the initiative...
...victory that Mister Sam could rightly store in his treasure chest of memories, but it was a dark victory indeed. Essentially it was a fight of Democrats with Democrats, and it marked a decisive swing of power from the entrenched Southern Democratic conservatives to the urban liberal forces that have grown increasingly frustrated over Southern seniority. But the close vote reddened the sore of the split and emphasized the powerful resources of the conservatives even under intense pressure. The cold realists in John Kennedy's White House knew that the fight would have to be refought on every major...
...final tally was 217 for, 212 against: 64 Democrats, all from the South and border states, voted against Rayburn, but 22 Republicans, mostly from the urban Northeast, crossed over the party line to save him from a humiliating defeat. When Rayburn announced the totals. Howard Smith stood up and shuffled off the floor and into the cloakroom. "Well," he said with a wan smile, "we done our damnedest." Rayburn's smile was far from wan. "We won." he said, his eyes dancing, "and I am satisfied...