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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought their own endemic rage to last July's six-day riot that killed 26 and left the city's Central Ward a shambles. No single grievance enraged the ghetto more than the issue of the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, which was scheduled to build a campus in the core of the slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newark: Progress--& Poison | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...Transit's 75-mile construction project, which includes a tunnel under Market Street. Manhattan Banker David Rockefeller bent to Alioto's urging that a $250 million Embarcadero construction project -known locally as "Rockefeller Center West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point-the ghetto's first -where movies may be filmed and residents can pick up paychecks as extras. Along the way, he helped settle an eight-week newspaper strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco: Opening the Gate | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...said Perry, have come to the realization that they must find their "manhood" in their own community before they can move successfully into the white. "Thus, while some blacks are moving into white America-and not thereby becoming white, either -others are turning inward to the black ghetto to build their own strength. I find the dual process exciting, healthy and promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Center of Gravity | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Peasant Philosophy. A Presbyterian and strong believer in simplicity and solidarity-what he likes to call "peasant philosophy"-Aguiar found city life incompatible with his principles. "I need a place with the healthy atmosphere of the interior," he explains. This is what he achieved by building his own company town and calling it City of God. He recalls: "They all said we were mad. The roads were so bad that when it rained hard our city became unreachable even by Jeep. We had no communications, no telephone." That was 15 years ago. When 40,000 people poured into town last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Paradise Is a Company Town | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left unreported is a chillingly explicit vignette on How to Build a Bomb with materials available in hardware stores for "less than five dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 20th Century Waiting Rooms | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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