Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democrats will doubtless try to make an issue out of the Administration's reluctance-stronger in Ike's second term than in his first-to spend federal money for state and local projects such as public housing, urban renewal, programs to aid depressed areas. Sure to pass during the current session of Congress, as exhibits for Democrats to point to from the hustings, are housing and depressed area bills much bigger than the Administration wants. If Ike vetoes them. Democrats can point to the vetoes. The need for state and local public works is undeniable-the big-city...
...exports of Indonesia's rich natural resources (nearly half the world's rubber, a fifth of its tin, a third of its copra) could handily pay for. But 95% of Indonesia's 90 million inhabitants, living in a subsistence rural economy that lies below the modern urban superstructure like the coral foundation of a South Pacific atoll, are undisturbed by the currency crises and budgetary storms that agitate the fringing reefs above...
...population exploded (from 10 million in 1800 to more than 20 million in 1850) and its living conditions collapsed. Anything, even a brothel, seemed better to thousands of working girls than a life in the "dark Satanic Mills" and unspeakable "padding kens" (poor lodging houses) of the urban slums...
...hands from Tory Marples to the Fabian Socialist intellectuals agree, Britain's prime social problem is not too many people but too many people in the wrong places. Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities. Says Oxford Economist Colin Clark: "There is an area in central England, an oblong, coffin-shaped area, which includes more and more of our population ... If things go on as they are, we shall soon all be in the coffin...
...school superintendents have a tougher job-or a better record-than Carl Francis Hansen, 54, who heads the public schools of Washington, D.C. Like most big cities, Washington suffers all of urban public education's growing ills: crowded classrooms, underpaid teachers, juvenile delinquency. But Superintendent Hansen has extra trouble. In Dixie-oriented Washington, "massive" integration sparked a continuing exodus of white pupils to private schools and the suburbs; 76.7% of the city's 118,244 students are now Negro, up 20% since...