Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites-whether they like them or not. The best thing they can do for racial relations, many feel, is to do well. "Success is the best revenge," says Richard Clarke, owner of a large black employment agency in New York City. But as middle-class blacks have prospered, a gap has opened between them and the black underclass that remains mired in poverty and despair (see box page 26). The gap serves as a reminder of how far some have come and how many others still have to make the journey...
...rate of black progress demonstrated in the 1960s slowed somewhat in the early 1970s, and the income gap between the races widened a bit. There is a persistent feeling among blacks that their fragile prosperity might blow away with ill economic winds. When times are bad, blacks are often the first to lose their jobs -though there have been no noticeable layoffs of black skilled workers during the current recession. Says a $35,000-a-year urban planning executive in Detroit: "We constantly live with the paranoia that we'll get sick or fired. I'm constantly aware...
Soon afterwards, St. Clair wearily shuffled in--short, dumpy, exhausted. When St. Clair smiles, he looks sly and devious--it is a homely smile (there is a large gap between his front teeth), a mocking smile, and he looks remarkably like the "Silver Fox" for which he is nicknamed. But St. Clair was not smiling as he entered. He deposited a briefcase in his private office, then dropped himself deep into a chair at a small conference table and gave a long, loud sigh. He looked more like a wounded bear...
...Business writer and Atlanta bureau chief, he joined the World section in 1968. Last year he filled in for seven months as Beirut bureau chief. "Having been in the Middle East," he says, "and sensing the utter difficulty of getting Arabs and Israelis together, I realize the really incredible gap Kissinger has bridged. It's fantastic, and I'm more delighted than...
...Protestant community. It's a situation I'm prepared to accept, but it's the inescapable social and economic problems arising from it that have created too much distrust in the country. The Catholics think they are being deprived, but every effort to close that gap is looked upon by Protestants as an example of special treatment...