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...Congress gave the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a franchise to rule on the efficacy as well as the safety of all new drugs offered for licensing. The lawmakers also invited the FDA to tackle a forbidding and involved cleanup job. From 1938 to 1962, some 7,000 new drugs had been marketed and during that period the FDA had final say on their safety but not their efficacy. The assignment from Capitol Hill was to recheck all of the drugs to determine whether they worked as advertised...
Even the whites had to admit that the black government was bringing a new vitality to the sleepy town. A city cleanup campaign was immediately launched, particularly in neglected black neighborhoods. Evers also made it clear that he was going to be a law-and-order mayor. Among his responsibilities is to serve as police justice, which gives clout to Evers' inaugural promise that there would be "no more clownin', and cursin' and disrespectin' people in the streets." Last week he fined a white from Louisiana $25 for reckless driving; a local black paid...
Lane decided that his bank, the biggest in the Deep South (assets: $1.5 billion), should become deeply involved in increasing home ownership and black capitalism in deprived areas. As a first step, he devised "the Georgia Plan," which starts with local cleanup drives and leads to high-risk improvement loans...
...plan is well under way in Savannah, where 40 impoverished Negroes have been helped to buy homes and 23 have received loans to begin or expand their own businesses. The bank has also mounted cleanup campaigns in the Negro neighborhoods of Valdosta and Albany, Ga., where thousands of blacks and whites together swept up and carted away hundreds of tons of junk. When the campaign was repeated in Savannah, some 30,000 people showed up to participate. Last week Lane introduced his plan to seven other Georgia cities, including Atlanta...
Lane is prepared to lend $15 million in the poor neighborhoods and spend $1,000,000 a year in cleanup campaigns. He also intends to expand his program far beyond that by seeking such large depositors as the Ford Foundation and converting their money into high-risk loans. "Lowincome people need money," says Lane, "and the banks have got to give it to them...