Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who cannot afford Sun City can always go to St. Petersburg, where they can sit on pastel-colored benches in the sun and stare into space, or tell each other what they did yesterday. In St. Pete, they can have their blood pressure taken for 35? at a street-corner booth, or play shuffleboard on 107 courts. They can listen to free band concerts almost any day in the year, or dance most evenings for a quarter, or "Eat Like a King for $1.60"−or less...
...keep the oldsters near their families and integrated in the community. The satellite units will have a centrally located core containing health services, a common dining room, and recreational center. With FHA support, the United Church figures that people with as little as $1,800 a year income can afford to live in United Church projects. The first one is scheduled for Vermilion, a resort town some 35 miles from Cleveland, with others to follow in Ohio. Still other United Church projects are planned for Baltimore, Santa Clara, Calif., Sarasota, Fla., and Walnut, Iowa...
...accustomed to better things. Their thin wood-frame houses which cover two unpaved streets near the center of town are cracked and peeling. One wonders (as, most likely, people have wondered for the past 30 years) just how much longer these houses can last. Many of these Negroes could afford better, but habit and the relatively low rents set by their colored landlords have kept them immobile...
Knowing that they cannot afford to fail, the conferees will probably reach an agreement. They have been helped by a decision of the Common Market nations, which originally planned to admit coffee from France's former African colonies virtually free of tariff while slapping stiff duties on Latin American coffee. Now the Common Marketeers have agreed to slash their general coffee tariff by 40%, giving Latin American nations a chance to compete too, so that these hard-pressed nations will not require so much foreign aid. Explains Françoise Gavoty, France's delegate to the coffee conference...
...only American Leaguer to reach base twice, scored his team's lone run. Said Rollins: "Maybe after you've been picked for the All-Star team five or six times, you can think you're pretty good. But a man in my position can't afford to think that way. I'm not a success...