Word: urbanizing
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Whitney M. Young Jr., Executive Director of the National Urban League and Presidential appointee to the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, will speak at 2:15 today in Lowell Lecture Hall on "The Racial Crisis: Community or Chaos...
...PAXTON: MORNING AGAIN (Elektra). This is folk without folksiness. Paxton's trimmings may sometimes be countrified or traditional, but in this, his fourth LP, his essence emerges as urban and contemporary. When he writes a talking blues, it is about pot-smoking platoons in Viet Nam who smell "like midnight on St. Marks Place" (in Manhattan's hippie East Village). Appropriately, style and melody take second place in his songs to the compressed sophistication of his lyrics. Somewhat world-weary and very world-wary, they capsule the Paxton mixture of soft sympathies and hard ironies. Among the best...
...inaugural and touched on in his victory speech-"Bring us together"-Nixon also played host to a diverse cast of characters. In a single day, his guests at the Pierre included A.T.& T. Ex-Chairman Frederick Kappel, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Richard Helms, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr. After his meeting, Young quipped, in a reference to Nixon's neglect of the Negro during his campaign: "I wanted to make sure the 'forgotten Americans' he's been talking about get together with the 'forgotten Americans...
Uncertain Futures. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver, the first Negro to serve in the Cabinet, accepted appointment as president of Bernard M. Baruch College, a separate college of the City University of New York that is expected to be built in a Brooklyn renewal area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may go back to a foundation job (he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation when J.F.K. named him Secretary of State). The future is uncertain for others, like Labor's Willard Wirtz and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...Talent. Academic interest in research and problem-solving, says Barzun, has led the universities to undertake Government or foundation projects that other agencies may be better equipped to handle. "A dozen of the leading universities," he says, "are now managing large programs of urban renewal and race relations, engaging in the improvement of- housing and rehabilitation of moral derelicts, uplifting economically depressed areas, or supplying art to the community-all this without evidence that they are equipped with the talent, organization or experience to succeed." Barzun agrees with the late Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset that the university "has abandoned...