Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand the corporation must depend on local authorities to supply schools, playing fields, and civic auditoriums. The Corporation is allowed to spend only $14 per person on these projects. Since most town councils are reluctant to raise taxes, the corporations must constantly pressure local officials to fulfill their obligations. Usually local authorities remain hostile for about five years until new town people take over the elected offices and new factories begin supplementing local revenues...
...more and more from out-of-class socializing with their white peers. At the University of Wisconsin, Negroes have virtually taken over one section of the student rathskeller, which is now known as the "CC" (colored corner). "There's a sense of wanting to be together-we can depend on each other," explains one. Some Negroes at Harvard are tired of finding themselves alone at dining tables, fending off questions about civil rights from groups of white classmates. "There might be one or two white cats you might feel close to," says Yale's Junior Craig Foster...
...itself into the University's budget plans. But it has never before had to overcome the resistance of a body as formidable as the Harvard Administration. Getting started was an achievement--but an achievement accomplished without opposition. The Federation's ultimate role at Harvard, and possibly its survival, will depend on what it can get done this year...
...program's success has resulted from its simplicity. Whenever Ekman has proof that a landlord will not accommodate Negroes, white servicemen are forbidden to lease or rent from the property owner. Since most landlords around military bases depend almost exclusively on military occupants, Ekman's decree leaves them with little choice between integration or bankruptcy. But, says Ekman, "first we try to use persuasion. I point out that a lot of the combat leaders are Negroes. If they have to live 20 or 30 miles from the base, it is uneconomic and very bad for morale...
...League members base their major argument against the SST on its noise, their success may well depend on another argument--economics...