Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last month a group of 58 social scientists and government officials, sponsored by the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, met to consider ways of improving the enumeration of non-white minority groups, such as Negroes, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican-Americans in the 1970 Census...
...Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard should apprise organizations interested in social statistics, particularly those concerned with minority groups, of the proceedings of this Conference
Flora & Fauna. During their school and job vacations, thousands of summer trippers will drop out for weeks on end, aggravating the problems of accommodation and hygiene that are already straining many an urban budget. Addressing the Mayors' Conference in Honolulu late last month, San Francisco's public-health director, Dr. Ellis D. ("LSD") Sox, said that the 10,000 hard-core hippies already in San Francisco are costing the city $35,000 a month for treatment of drug abuse, warned that with a summer influx there was serious danger of epidemics in infectious hepatitis (from needles exchanged...
...result, there are hippies of every stripe: city and suburban hippies, who can do their thing only in urban environments; beach hippies and mountain hippies, Indian hippies and neoPolynesian hippies, desert hippies and river hippies, musical and poetical and light and sound hippies, all doing their thing as they see it to be done, some alone and some in "tribes" of like-minded thing-doers...
...management of its newspapers. This does not necessarily mean that other papers may soon fold. Wags about town are pointing out, however, that the Record-American has made public no plans for a new printing plant although its current plant, a Victorian monstrosity, is slated for destruction in an urban renewal project...