Word: channelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to understand its problems or anticipate its difficulties. Though the city's 540,000 Negroes represent more than one-fifth of its population, Yorty has relied mostly on three Negro city councilmen and "a fine group of Negro ministers" to keep him in touch with the Black Channel−which regards Yorty's men as Uncle Toms. As a result, says a Los Angeles Negro psychiatrist, black Angelenos feel that they are victims of "disregard, hypocritical attitudes and paternalism...
...Black Channel. The war's major bat tleground was a 20-sq.-mi. ghetto. Watts is the kind of community that cries out for urban renewal, poverty programs, job training. Almost anything would help. Two-thirds of its residents have less than a high school education; one-eighth of them are technically illiterate...
...story frame and stucco houses. But in the small rented houses and apartments, money-short Negroes often crowd four and five families; children are left alone while parents work, and youths roam the streets seeking relief from the monotony of daily life. Watts is part of the Black Channel, a 72-square-mile area that houses 90% of Los Angeles County's 600,000 Negroes. It is the "hard," unchanging ghetto, a traditional portal for Negroes migrating to Los Angeles. Few of its people are native Californians. Of the 1.5 million Negroes who have fled the South...
...first mean ingful impact of the new social programs will come early next month when 20 million people begin receiving the 7% higher social security benefits recently voted by Congress. The average monthly hikes seem modest-$5 for individual recipients, $8 for couples-but they will channel $1.2 billion more into the economy this year and $117 million a month thereafter. Because the increases are retroactive to Jan. 1, each recipient will collect eight months of bonus in one swoop-amounting among couples in the top bracket to a lump-sum extra of $492. Though the average American habitually spends...
Under its agreement with Telemation, A.P. will install the machines and maintain them. To date, A.P. has signed up some 30 C.A.T.V. systems. Whether people will continue to watch, once the novelty has worn off, is a matter of speculation. "C.A.T.V. systems are already using channels for nothing but weather reports," says Fred Strozier, A.P. broadcast-membership executive. "If people will sit and look at a silent weather channel, they will certainly look at a news channel...