Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Robert C. Wood will become the new director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard...
Wood will replace Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education and Urban Politics who is leaving the Joint Center to become President-elect Nixon's special assistant for Urban Aairs. Two other associates of the Center will also work in Nixon's Administration, Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, and Martin Anderson...
...Some day there will be a statue to Stokely Carmichael in the Pantheon of Urbanists," Rodwin said. "He deserves a lot of the credit for making people aware of the sensitive issues of urban affairs," Rodwin added...
...insatiable maturity in New York City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation of a brilliant urban intelligence confronting the chaos of modern life and his own psyche -written with irony, outrage and hysterical laughter...
...place could not have been more propitious for a man with an extravagant taste for self-righteousness and the sort of brawn developed by swinging a ten-pound cooper's hammer. Mid-19th century Chicago was beginning America's painful, often bloody transition from frontier to urban society. Law enforcement was faltering between mere inefficiency and dedicated corruption. Into the power vacuum stepped the indefatigable, incorruptible Pinkerton, self-made gangbuster. In 1849 he became Chicago's first and only police detective. After resigning from the force, in his own words, "because of political interference," he started...