Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohlin also plans to study possible applications of social science research techniques to urban problems -- crime, housing, and mass transportation -- in co-operation with Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law and head of the Urban Legal Studies program...
...after the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, Daniel P. Moynihan, now director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies, sensed the possible murder of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald if he remained in Dallas...
...weeks ago, the Huks were able to get together 150 buses and 5,000 Pampanga villagers to drive into Manila and complain to Marcos about the "brutality" of the Constabulary, which is the chief hunter of the Huks. Matters might be much worse if the Huks and their urban comrades, the Communist Party of the Philippines, could get along. Fortunately, they are so split by ideological and personal rivalries that they have so far been unable to agree on any concerted action...
Desegregation may, in the long run, solve some of the city's educational problems, but it will not in itself guarantee a viable urban school system. Far more important, to some observers, is the need for decentralization of authority, better teachers with improved working conditions-and a willingness on the part of students to learn. Where teachers and students do work together, as in such showcase schools as the Bronx High School of Science and Manhattan's P.S. 6, the system shows what it can do. What is needed above all is a more co operative attitude...
...often wish this were more true, too. The policy game in urban transportation and labor problems which Mr. Lardner described is only one course among the 16 taken for the M.P.A. degree, and is the only one of its type in the School's curriculum. But if it were possible to develop meaningful instruction through the stimulation of other areas of public policy--particularly international politics and foreign policy, where the lack of authentic informational inputs seems to be an overriding barrier to effective simulation--we would like to try it, and indeed some of us spend...