Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonwhite and the small farm worker are particularly hard hit. In some Negro ghettos, 28% are unemployed-a higher rate than the U.S. as a whole experienced in the depths of the Depression. In addition, problems of air and water pollution, classroom shortages, inadequate mass transportation and urban decay plague the nation...
...income of $350,000, the bulk of it from the estate of Lizzie Glide, a devout widow of an oil tycoon, who left $1,000,000 to the church in 1936. Once a sedate, middle-class parish, Glide gradually lost much of its original white membership with the coincidental decay of its surrounding neighborhood. Four years ago, when the Rev. Lewis Durham of Los Angeles was named head of the foundation, Glide turned its energies full time toward service in the slums and dedicated itself to becoming "a bridge between church and non-church...
...refused to do--seek out a wide variety of student views and make an honest attempt at understanding them. With rare exceptions, those who meet this qualification were all trained in the law after World War II. Because of their youth, they can appreciate fully students' concern with urban decay, international chicanery, racial turmoil, and the problem of extending adequate legal service to the poor...
...immediate issue was the decay of Berlin. Of the 17,000 business concerns operating in the city in 1938, 3,000 are left. Some 21 per cent of the 2.2 million population is over 65 (nearly twice the percentage in the entire Federal Republic). Of that legendary popular unity nothing remains. The city's 30,000 students, who three years ago cached arms in their dormitories for nightly assaults on the wall, are now the irreconcilable enemies of Berlin's middle class...
...President, of course, had a point: no nation has ever enjoyed such fantastic wealth, and that wealth is increasing steadily. But the U.S. is also in the midst of a debilitating war, a racial upheaval of immeasurable proportions, and a crisis of seemingly irreversible decay in its cities. In such circumstances, when the President grandly declares that the country never had it so good, he is adding a few more voters to the great consensus that he is creating-against himself...