Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housing, moreover, was overconcentrated on the edge of the metropolitan areas. Upwardly mobile blacks and whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage. But the fact that housing policies led to undesirable results does not totally discredit them. Anthony Downs, chairman of the Real Estate Research Corp., argues that a solution lies in a broader social policy that would transfer some of the ghetto poor to the suburbs and provide those...
...Harder They Come. Starring Jimmy Cliffe. The movie quickly became something of a cult phenomenon. And why shouldn't it have? It's got everything: set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a travelogue; a reggae singe on the up and up is bullied and beaten down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a sweet young thing, innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving as plain lechery. His ambition as a rock star thwarted...
...learn what the politicians were hearing, TIME correspondents followed a representative seven as they sought out their voters: struggling with squawking microphones in community centers, high schools and veterans' halls, stomping through the gathering snow in Vermont and Illinois, walking the black ghetto streets of Baltimore, attending a chic cocktail party in Santa Monica, strolling around a Georgia county courthouse in the warming winter...
...Young, 55, the son of a tailor raised in Detroit's Black Bottom ghetto, the celebration seemed "more like a coronation than an inauguration." It capped a lifetime of fighting for black rights, first as a union organizer at the Ford Motor Co. in the late 1930s, later as a leader of the leftist National Negro Labor Council in the '50s and as a politician in the '60s. A state senator since 1964, he fought for passage of an open-housing law and against a ban on busing children to integrate schools. In both cases, whites from...
...growth, though, minority banking still faces long odds. The lending policies of such banks are inherently chancy: .8% of the loans made by the Gateway National Bank of St. Louis fail, while the national average loss rate for all banks is .5%. Ghetto bankers accept those risks as inevitable if they are to do their job, but they also have difficulty building a corps of experienced middle managers and attracting capital. Richard Linyard, director of the Seaway National Bank of Chicago, wore three hats until he could find a qualified cashier and controller. Some help on the second problem...