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...before I met with Brooke, Jackson was in the Old Senate Office Building suite talking with Brooke, Jackson, whose break with Abernathy and the rest of SCLC's Atlanta contingent specifically revolved around Jackson's independent production of the highly successful "Black Expo" in Chicago, understands the economic roots of the problems of blacks in America and throughout the Third World. Although his famous Saturday morning meetings at Breadbasket ran on his personal electricity and drew much of their appeal from his "I am Somebody" exhortations, their real goal was to sensitize blacks to economic issues and enlist foot-soldiers...
...Habitat uninhabited so long? Basically, because of initial mismanagement. Its multilevel apartments were filled with exhibitors and functionaries until Expo ended. Then for several months it stood tenantless, save for the architect and another family or two, as federal, provincial and local governments quarreled over who was to administer it. In February 1968, the federal government's Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) took it over, and a series of bungles began. Rents were pegged at exorbitant levels. Rumors spread about rat infestation and inadequate heat. Understandably, prospective tenants stayed away. Then CMHC cut rents-twice. People moved...
...snug and warm; a baroque symphony dances across the huge living room while the champagne bubbles and the soft lights glow. This is Habitat, the magnificent living complex designed by Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie and built on the tiny Cité du Havre peninsula for Canada's Expo '67. For a surprisingly long time, it was well in the running for the White-Elephant-of-the-Decade Award, but today it is the most desirable address in Montreal...
Most blacks, uneducated as well as sophisticated, seem to realize this. Last year when he appeared at Black Expo '71, a trade and cultural fair in the International Amphitheater in Chicago, the audience was screaming for Geraldine even before Flip came on. "There was such a massive outpouring of love and appreciation that it overwhelmed the cat and broke him down," remembers the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who helped organize the affair...
...been a showcase for Texas chauvinism, the character of the fair has changed somewhat in the past two decades. Says General Manager Joseph B. Rucker Jr.: "We wanted the fair to have an educational and cultural justification to place it beyond the ordinary festival." This year the motif is "Expo-Trans-Port," and the fair features an impressive mock-up of the new four-terminal airport presently under construction between Dallas and Fort Worth. There is also a new emphasis on Texas ethnic groups (German Day, Czech Day) and a growing spirit of Pan-Americanism. Cattlemen from Argentina, Nicaragua...