Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plans for urban renewal and medical assistance for the aged, stressing voluntary participation by states, municipalities and individuals, instead of programs keyed to federal intervention...
...spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds of health ?one of a host of doctors who through the years have attributed to the plant 300 diseases ranging from impotence...
...black thread of the dawn." But all through the long daylight hours of Ramadan, the holy month in which the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, good Moslems must abstain from food and sex according to the most rigorous rules. Strict devotion to Ramadan lays a heavy burden on modern urban living: people became irritable and ineffectual on the job. Tunisia's up-to-date President Habib Bourguiba recently clamped down on the all-night nightclubs where celebrants make up for daylight denials, and boldly persuaded considerable numbers of his urban coreligionists to break their Ramadan fast this year...
...blasted the President's Committee on Government Contracts which tries to get employers to abide by the clause in Government contracts that forbids racial discrimination. A year ago, said Meany, he offered Labor Secretary James Mitchell a chance to help break the color bar on a big Washington urban-renewal project. The offer: if Mitchell, who is vice chairman of the President's Committee, would put pressure on the contractor, the Truland Electrical Contracting Co., Meany would put pressure on Local 26 by providing nonunion Negro electricians. Meany said he got no reply from Mitchell on the offer...
HEADING eastward over the Arizona desert, high-flying transport pilots can pick up the urban glow of Phoenix from 70 miles out, as the city lies like a blue-white solitaire upon limitless black velvet. Though Phoenix expanded its limits from 17.1 square miles in 1950 to its present 110-square-mile area to make room for a tripled population (373,000), it remains no more than a brightly lit patch upon a landscape characterized by vastness...