Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Problems for "the blacks" are most noticeable in residential neighborhoods. Though their children attend unsegregated schools, they are often last in line for the cities' already desperately overcrowded public housing, barred from private apartments and boardinghouses by "No Colored" signs, and forced to pay rates of up to 10% on mortgages for private houses. The dark million cluster in overcrowded, rundown Victorian neighborhoods in and around London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, where they sometimes make up 20% or 30% of the population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens...
...must be a little independent of the currents and undercurrents of public opinion, to express problems in less emotional terms." Another moneyman widely admired among his colleagues is West Germany's Otmar Emminger, 54, who works as a director under Bundesbank President Karl Blessing. Emminger, who managed to attend five meetings last week, helped organize Working Party III, is a thoroughgoing internationalist who believes strongly in monetary cooperation be cause "we are all in the same boat...
Greenberg asserted that Title VI authorities should not approve so-called "freedom of choice" plans, under which school officials abolish formal school zones and tell Negroes that they can attend any school they wish. "In these cases," he said, "community pressure and the momentum of segregation will keep things entirely of almost entirely as they have been...
...served grudgingly, but sometimes they get "brown-skin service," meaning they are received with such elaborate courtesy that they are actually embarrassed. In many places Negroes still have to bring suit to use swimming pools or golf courses. But in the larger cities, they can eat where they please, attend theaters and concerts without trouble; some middle-class Negroes dine and dance at the best nightspots once a week. The civil rights movement is no longer much concerned with restaurants and the like. Say Negro leaders: "We're past the coffee stage...
...deliberately misleading. This is an exasperating but thoroughly predictable practice. I think a reporter should expect the Government to gold-plate what it tells him, and assume it is his job to do what he can to temper it. The practical solution would seem to be to attend the briefings, regard them as a reportorial starting point, then go out and crosscheck. Certainly, that is the way the best correspondents in Viet Nam function...