Word: core
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...homes because the area is lower than the arroyo lip, Harlingen took its stand in the central district, sandbagging dikes across streets wherever crews could find relatively high ground. Bulldozers gouged a 10-ft.-high earth embankment across one stretch, sacrificing the airport to save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water-shy tarantulas, and the mosquito population exploded beyond control...
...model-cities and rent-supplement bills are, in fact, the heart of the Administration's cities program. Model cities would concentrate money in selected, hard-core poverty areas, forcing municipal governments to look at a poor neighborhood's problems in their totality. Recognizing that new housing will do little good if everything else in a neighborhood yells poverty, the bill would also provide for the upgrading of schools and such amenities as more frequent garbage collection. Though the Senate cut $125 million from Johnson's request, it still provided $300 million more (for a total...
Many of the prominent Negroes who have taken white spouses have come from the laissez-faire world of show business: Lena Home, Pearl Bailey, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr. Some civil rights activists, such as James Farmer, formerly chief of CORE, and the late Walter White, the N.A.A.C.P.'s longtime executive secretary, went the same route. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke has an Italian wife, but the wedding was long ago and far away from public view; by the time it became noteworthy, Negro Brooke, rather than his Caucasian spouse, had led the family...
...course, try to come back again; but then so may the Air Cav. Some hard-core villages have received the Air Cav's cordon-and-search treatment no fewer than eleven times. In one three-month stretch recently, the Air Cav conducted 276 such operations-screening 48,470 people, searching 16,111 houses, capturing 789 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and killing 70. In the process, the Air Cav is denying food, taxes, recruits and intelligence to the main-force Communist units hiding in the hills above Binh Dinh, and destroying an infrastructure that the Communists have painstakingly built...
...With all these injuries, we're in the soup, walking on the vegetables," is the way soccer coach Bruce Munro described the outlook for his 20th Harvard season, which opens today with a game against Tufts. Munro's point is well taken, for surrounding a solid core of first-string returnees there is a lot of murk...