Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pastoral quiet of Lynnfield, Mass., was shattered one night last summer by the nerve-jangling throb of a pile driver. The residents' darkest suspicions were soon confirmed. The Boston suburb was to be the first of 15 localities where the Government plans to build anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) sites. Now, like other communities across the country, Lynnfield is fighting the nuclear intrusion with all its limited means...
...office building portion of the complex now appears to have been dropped, and the development will not be as massive as had been planned. Rufo Associates will build "just apartments" on the site, Rufo said. "We'll conform to the existing zoning regulations," he said...
...Boston," he continues, "you see Irish power. In Newark, you see Italian power. Cities are a series of ethnic powers. I see the black community fitting into that equation." Nor does he believe it will take blacks very long to build up ethnic power though they have been in North America for over three centuries. "In one way, this is the first black generation in America. Or, I mean, it is the first black generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation in which black awareness and pride could develop because...
Even so, he admits, Nixon has the right idea. "He does not need as much reorientation to understand black power as the old-time New Deal liberals do. 'What! Build up the ghettos,' they say. They don't believe us. They think we should try to escape, pretend our black skin is invisible. Now conservatives, they understand power. They know power is necessary before there can be negotiation. 'Do you have power?' they say. 'Good, then let's sit down and talk...
There's nothing wrong with economic power, but it will be far more difficult for blacks to build their own economic institutions in 1968 than it was for the Mormons in 1848. Nor does Farmer clarify what forms the "cooperative ownership" would take in a capitalist, competitive economy. In their eagerness to "deal" with the conservatives from a position of power, Farmer and the militants may be overestimating how much economic power they can muster...