Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council of Churches. A distinguished group of religious leaders, including Catholics and Jews and a scattering of liberal professors, was in attendance. The key figures were Dr. Robert Spike, Executive Director of the Commission on Religion and Race which had been established in 1963 in the midst of the Birmingham crisis, and Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, a young Negro sociologist and minister, then with the New York Protestant Council, and who a month later succeeded Spike in the national post. The larger purpose of the meeting was to propose that an "Economic Development Budget for Equal Rights in America...
...someone's house are as various as the names for it. Captains of losing football teams, unpopular girls and teachers take it as a sign of hate. Pretty and popular girls, on the other hand, consider it a compliment from a secret admirer. Often they are right. A Birmingham, Mich., high school boy puts it this way: "If a girl is outstanding, you kind of like to make her house outstanding." Q.E.D...
Many doctors - surgeons especially - operate on the principle of charging the patient according to his ability to pay. Ophthalmic Surgeon Alston Callahan of Birmingham operates on his own version of the principle. A well-heeled patient gets no bill. Instead, he is asked for a donation to the center in which he has been treated...
...vertical ghettos for middle-income Negroes and forcing lower-income Negroes to move to even meaner slums. Because the Negro urban population has almost doubled since 1950, the ghettos are spreading. Negroes now constitute 27% of the population in Chicago, 37% in St. Louis, 39% in Detroit, 40% in Birmingham, 41% in New Orleans and Baltimore, 24% in Norfolk and 63% in Washington. Worried about being surrounded by Negroes, most whites flee to the suburbs when Negroes move into an urban neighborhood; there, barely 4% of all residents are Negro...
...slump has hit hardest in Birmingham and the industrial Midlands. British Motor Corp., the industry's leader, was producing at capacity through August, when stocks of unsold cars began growing alarmingly. Now General Motors-owned Vauxhall, Rootes Motors, and Standard-Triumph as well as B.M.C. have cut work weeks to four days. B.M.C. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that 12,000 employees will be laid off early next month, "and it does not appear that they will be taken back again." Angry workers have responded with wildcat strikes, and union leaders utter dark warnings of slow downs and more...