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They are archrivals in Britain's business of turning stately homes into tourist traps. Yet the Duke of Bedford invited the Marauess of Bath to open his $2,500,000 "Wild Animal Kingdom" at Woburn Abbey. Only the animals refused to cooperate. As Bath drove around the preserve in his Bentley, a lion named Reggie leaped onto the hood. Three baby elephants had charged him as he cut the blue ribbon. When Bath held his ground, 450-lb. Tess trampled his foot. Lamely, his lordship predicted success for Bedford's menagerie...
...board is divided into four sections: the Ghetto Zone (including properties like Bedford Stuyvesant, Watts and Harlem), the Integrated Zone (Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Atlanta and Greenwich Village), the Suburban Zone...
...freedom and returned to Africa. In 1777, Thomas Jefferson, while serving in the Virginia legislature, began drafting a plan for the gradual emancipation and exportation of the slaves. Nor were Negroes themselves immune to the fantasy. In 1815 Paul Cuffe, a wealthy merchant, shipbuilder and landowner from the New Bedford area, shipped and settled at his own expense 38 of his fellow Negroes in Africa. It was perhaps his example that led in the following year to the creation of the American Colonization Society, which was to establish in 1821 the colony of Liberia. Great amounts of cash...
...voice is impassioned, resonant, "hooting" occasionally in the honored tradition of black preaching. Now and again the shouts of the preacher roll from behind the doors of Varick Memorial Church and out onto the quiet streets of Brooklyn's black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Pastor Calvin B. Marshall, stentorian proponent of black Christian radicalism, is reminding his parishioners that Christianity has a proper place in the black revolution...
...ghost neighborhoods, the symptoms are depressingly the same. Brooklyn's wastelands in Bedford-Stuyvesant resemble those along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh and 14th Street in Washington. Each of the half-forgotten neighborhoods has a bombed-out, end-of-a-war appearance; about all of them lingers the stale odor of moldering plaster and rotting wood. Peeling paint is everywhere; streets glisten with shards of glass from broken windows. Front doors have been ripped from their hinges, and human excrement often litters the stairwells. Interior partitions are punched through, floors broken up and obscene pictures scrawled on the walls...