Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RETURN OF THE VANISHING AMERICAN, by Leslie A. Fiedler. Ever the academic gadfly, Fiedler argues entertainingly that the Indian is the central figure in American mythology and that his spiritual heir is today's hippie...
...highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the U.S., unemployment double the nation's average, and several square miles of scabrous ghetto housing, Negroes in Newark 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...
...million college, to be built with state and federal funds, would, of course, have brought jobs to Newark's whites and Negroes alike. But as originally planned early last year, it would also have uprooted some 20,000 Negroes from housing on the 150 acres of Central Ward land that the college wanted. "This," protested one resident, "is a diabolical plot!" After violence succeeded verbal resistance last summer, New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs Paul Ylvisaker began'encouraging black militants to mobilize a legal challenge against the school, which initially was planned as a research-oriented institution with...
...None of the cells has a toilet. Every cell has a solid wood door, with a small peek-hole, and an uncovered bucket for toilet purposes. In the morning the men bring their buckets to a central depository. . . . There is not a thermostat in the entire 87-year-old institution. When it is too hot, the windows are opened. When it is too cold, there is no relief...
...blandly bucolic skin, Bradesco hides tough sinews. South America's most elaborate computer system operates 24 hours a day in the City of God. Helicopters and a bristling network of rooftop antennas link the city with many of Bradesco's 327 branches, spread over south and central Brazil. Seventeen radio stations keep the bank's executives in constant touch with remote offices. While most of Brazil's musty banks know where they stand only two or three times a month, Bradesco directors in the 13-story headquarters building in the City of God scan yesterday...