Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human custodians, reporting the location of the trouble spot, the month, day, hour and minute of the breakdown.' Morris (pop. 7,985), which only switched to dial phones a year ago, was chosen for the pilot project because of its size, its ratio of industrial business, rural and urban residents. Although less than 10% of the town's 4,500 telephone users are current participants in the experiment (at no extra charge), more customers will be gradually added...
Certain to be adopted by ICC unless the New Haven protests (an unlikely possibility), the report urges "a larger and more direct Federal role" in the problems of urban mass transportation. As a first step, the report recommended that New Haven fares should be raised 20% to 30% to make the price of the ride "more commensurate with the cost," but it also insisted that the passenger should get more service for his money. Congress should be asked for legislation to enable all railroads to acquire new passenger equipment under more liberal terms. "We recognize that the public should...
Nowhere were the deadly results of this political timorousness more visible than at last week's meeting of the Central Prohibition Committee. Almost to a man, committee members agreed that bootlegging is on the increase and "at least in urban areas" prohibition has failed. None of this, however, deterred Minister of State (and noted dry) Balwant Datar, who insisted any suggestion of relaxation or repeal was a "counsel of despair." Instead, Datar called for sterner laws and more rigorous enforcement, and in a final example of righteousness run riot, urged that in all trials involving prohibition violatiors "the burden...
...responsive instrument to play on: a comedian who, like Chaplin or Marie Dressier, is more an actor than a performer. And through the character Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat), De Broca makes a gay and warm and generous point about life itself: live it while...
...unattended classrooms (surprisingly little disorder resulted). Cried happy kids: "Hold that line!" The first teachers' strike in the city's history was called by the United Federation of Teachers, A.F.L.-C.I.O., which claims one-quarter of the 39,000 teachers in the nation's biggest urban public school system. The union had solid demands, from sick pay to duty-free lunch periods, but most of all it wanted collective bargaining rights. Therein lay the real issue. As one of 39 organizations representing New York teachers, the union sought to become the strongest...