Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Schocklee, a priest in a low-income area in St. Louis. His solution: bussing slumdwellers out of the central city so that they can shop in a farmers' market. A more practical answer is the cooperative. Manhattan's Morningside Heights Consumer Cooperative, a clean, friendly store on the fringes of Harlem, not only offers prices as low or lower than commercial outlets but also gives a 4.3% rebate on each customer's annual purchases. So successful has Morningside been that another coop, in the very heart of Harlem, is planned for next year...
...Despite the snow, weather conditions did not rule out a visual landing; moreover, all pilots were warned that Cincinnati's electronic glide slope indicator had been out of action since Sept. 5 while the runway is being lengthened. Airport officials hastened to give their facilities a clean bill. Nonetheless, twice before in the past six years the hills of Hebron have been a November graveyard for aircraft approaching Runway 18. A Boeing 727 crashed in rain little more than a mile from the orchard when the pilot miscalculated his approach during the evening of Nov. 8, 1965, killing...
...charge emerged in the aftermath of the Streisand concert. The crowd had left Sheep's Meadow strewn with garbage, the refuse of a festive evening--papers, beer cans, food, old bottles, and a single black miniskirit. The mess took three days to clean up. Reed charged that the landscaped beauty of Central Park was being lost in a deluge of commercial events--shows, concerts, happenings...
...Other things" include informal seminars on "race relations," "adolescence," and "child psychology," school clean-ups, Community Activities, and many, many meetings and discussions...
...defense, it has also frequently taken direct part in domestic affairs, from running land-reclamation projects to acting as the "great school" for revolutionary militancy. Now the P.L.A. faces a task of greater magnitude than any it has ever before confronted short of war. In its effort to clean up the wreckage of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, it has practically taken over the running of China...