Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME says "we need well-planned recreational development," as if this applied to Disney Corporation's plans for Mineral King [Feb. 7]. You would ignore the thousands who pilgrimage annually up the winding forest road to find deep enjoyment and escape from urban pressures in simple camping, hiking and horseback riding away from the asphalt wastelands of Southern California. You would "improve" this Shangri-la by callously jamming 81/2 miles of superhighway through a wild section of Sequoia National Park, set aside for posterity in 1890, Then you would transform the tiny mountain valley into a parking...
...parlous condition of the nation's 3,200,000 farm workers has received little attention in the past compared with urban poverty, but both problems will be covered in a new program scheduled for publication this week. In it, the Administration will outline its specific proposals for the use of tax incentives to promote job-producing industrial activity in poverty areas. The White House has also directed the Labor and Agriculture departments to study the feasibility of extending the Taft-Hartley Act to cover farm workers. This move, long advocated by the A.F.L.C.I. O., would give them the right...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Farmer will be a key adviser to HEW Secretary Robert Finch on urban affairs. One of his priority tasks will be to establish liaison between the Administration and the strident young blacks who distrust government generally, but particularly a Republican government...
Coping with Questions. To compete in the lower house elections, Thanom and the regime's strongman, Interior Minister Praphas Charusathien, who is also Deputy Premier and army commander, constructed their own political organization, the United Thai People's Party. Seni's Democrat Party, attractive to urban and educated Thais, formed the main opposition. Also opposing the government were a dozen smaller groups with little nationwide appeal. Despite long years of political apathy and a lack of distinctive platforms, the campaign was fairly spirited. In Bangkok, a Democrat Party stronghold, U.T.P.P. rallies were interrupted by hecklers. Moreover...
...letter, like the Faculty's earlier statement, makes no specific comments on the cancelled course, planning 11-3b "An End to Urban Violence." The course's instructor--Siegfried M. Breuning, visiting lecturer in Transportation, cancelled the course on Feb. 7 after 85 black students appeared at the first meeting to protest the course's alleged "racist" plans to "devise programs to further contain and supress" urban blacks by developing a "riot-control technology...