Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John W. Gardner, chairman of the Urban Coalition, will present next week's three Godkin lectures in a television studio rather than broadcast from Sanders Theater...
Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and now a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, will lecture on "The Individual and the Society." The lectures will cover many of the city-conflict problems studied by the Urban Coalition as well as the role of demonstrations on and off campus...
What is most dismaying about the city is that it may well reflect the future of much of urban America. "Newark is the urban prototype," says Rutgers Urbanologist George Sternlieb. "A few years from now it will be Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis and Akron, and then it will be every older city in the country." Thirteen percent of Newark's citizens are on welfare. The city led the nation in serious crimes per 100,000 of population in 1967, and violent crime rose 41% in the first nine months of 1968. Double locks are becoming standard in most dwellings...
...occasional shelling of cities, the ordinary life in the country continues almost normally. Communications and roads are largely unimpaired, and the vital pacification effort-dealt a heavy blow in last year's assault-is unaffected in 36 of the country's 44 provinces. Saigon, which became an urban battlefield in 1968, has so far felt the offensive's blows only in the form of rocket salvos. There are no new curfew restrictions, no hoarding, no staggering price increases. Acts of terrorism, while still a threat, are well below last year's level, and the number...
...newsmen with personal knowledge of their papers' omissions, distortions or other misdeeds. Though many of the articles are signed, none of the contributors have complained yet of pressure from their bosses to keep quiet. The Review is edited by Daily News Education Reporter Henry De Zutter, Sun-Times Urban Affairs Specialist Christopher Chandler and American Education Reporter Ron Dorfman. All three contend that their careers are still prospering...