Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team's most formidable opponent, however, will be non-League New York University, which boasts a list of nationally-known players, some of whom have fenced in the Olympics...
...Newcomers, third volume in a unique study of metropolitan New York by the Graduate School of Public Administration, reaches book stands today. In it, Oscar Handlin, professor of History, assesses the position of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a changing metropolis...
...survey was commissioned by the Regional Plan Association, Inc., a non-profit organization which was one of the first regional planning groups in the United States. "Although we concentrate on the New York area, our survey will be used by city planners everywhere. We can give planners a good idea of which forces in a city they can change, and which they'll just have to live with," Vernon pointed...
...first two books in the nine volume study dealt with changes in the internal structure of New York; others will deal with the city's relation to changes occurring in the nation and the world. Next fall, Vernon's summary of the survey's findings, Metropolls 1985, will appear. "Our function is simply to inform," Vernon said. "We have found certain advantages in keeping normative notions out of our work...
Handlin's Newcomers is most concerned with race problems peculiar to New York. He shows that the effort of Negroes and Puertan Ricans toward social and economic integration has precedents in the experiences of other immigrant groups. But because of the color bar and economic factors, these newcomers have failed to integrate into the life of the city as well as their predecessors...