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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provides 40% of Norfolk's payroll)-but many of the city's citizens have never quite got over the feeling that for years prompted them to post "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed" signs. Part of downtown Norfolk remains a warren of grimy apartments and noisy taverns, but urban renewal projects have swept other parts to make way for public housing, hospitals, and a $15 million civic center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quest for a Personality | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...Harvard in 1948, he was recommended to Builder William Zeckendorf as the kind of architect who could help Zeckendorf in his grandly conceived city projects. Zeckendorf hired him. "In city planning, you need a man like Zeckendorf," says Pei. "Only through men like him can an architect get into urban redevelopment. He can't do it himself, because he has no understanding of land values, movements and trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flagpole in the Square | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Will Rogers, the country-boy conscience of the '20s and early '30s, who insisted that "there is no credit in being a comedian when you have the whole government working for you," could be biting, but most of the time he was jovially rustic where Sahl is urban and hip. Rogers was lovable, and even his fans do not claim that quality for Sahl. But in his own way, Sahl has taken his place on the center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMEDIANS: The Third Campaign | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Well satisfied with his face lifting of New Haven, Conn. (pop. 149,000), fourth-term Mayor Richard C. Lee, energetic slum clearer and chairman of the Demo cratic Advisory Council's subcommittee on urban problems, is eager to advise the nation's metropolises on their slum problems. Speaking to a predominantly Negro Sunday school group, Dick Lee, 44, last week suggested a strategic variation on Southern lunch-counter sit-ins that sent official eyebrows soaring in police headquarters across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Amazing Mr. Lee | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...pigeons winged into the sky over Portland, Ore. last week to carry the good news to 29 Oregon and Washington cities. The news: the opening this week on the east bank of Portland's Willamette River of the sprawling (50-acre), $100 million Lloyd Center, the largest urban shopping center ever built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Cowboy's Dream | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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