Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Unity Bank was set up last June in the Negro Roxbury district of Boston, it has made about 600 loans without loss and brought in almost 6,000 depositors with more than $7,000,000 in accounts. About two-thirds of its clients are black, but the bank also gets business from some white-owned firms, including the Gillette Co. and New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. President Donald Sneed Jr., 35, a former real estate broker, reported a profit of $47,520 for the first six months of the bank's operations...
Applehurst's cheery district nurse is to be killed off in one of the next few installments, leaving June Buckridge without a job and without the identity she has built since the start of the serial six years ago. Off-screen she has a tendency to get drunk, still spouting the platitudes of Sister George--along with her own opinions. Beryl Reid plays her scenes with a witty flair that none of the other characters ever approaches...
...offending poem, written by a 15-year-old black, girl, was read December 26 on the Julius Lester show, a two-hour, live program regularly scheduled on Thursday nights. On the controversial program, Leslie Campbell, a black school teacher from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district, read several poems written by his students, including the one entitled "Anti-Semitism' and dedicated to Albert Shanker...
...barrage was in response to enemy morter and rocket attacks on Siagon, Da Nang, and 50 provincial and district capitals, believed to be part of a Communist spring offensive...
...Boondocks. But the country side seems to want no part of pu rity. Passive resistance continues among the peasants - apparently with some connivance on the part of the army. There are complaints from revolutionary committees, which are now the governing bodies in China, that lower-ranking of ficers at district and county levels are not following orders, are in fact making their own decisions-presumably because they are siding with the peasants The most specific complaints have come from Kweichow province where the provincial revolutionary committee has hac to remind local commanders that the relationship between them was "that between...