Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell bragged that the record would sell more than a million copies, earning him $280,000 in royalties. But-relative to Powell's boast-the record has bombed. At most, 103,000 have been sold, and sales now are down nearly to nil. At the Record Shack on Harlem's 125th Street, Manager Buddy Franklin said that even at $1.10 off the list price of $4.79, Faith has become a dust catcher. Potential customers rarely buy the record after listening to it. "After they hear it once," said Franklin, "who needs...
...when an assistant principal asked quietly: "All right, what do you really want us to do in the schools?" the audience was agonizingly silent. Last week parents of students at West Harlem's P.S. 125 kept 1,500 children out of school to dramatize their demand for a bigger voice in school affairs...
Even when aging structures are replaced by ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit...
...night at Harvard. He played at one of the city's most elite establishments, and lost $1800. He returned the next night and cleared $2300. "That takes a great deal of guts," an admirer said, "but after all, he did grow up in the backroom of a Harlem gambling joint...
...Harlem Gambler" was backed that night. But in most Harvard games students play with their own money which comes from a previous summer's earnings or a parental allowance. A successful player can keep going all year on the basis of his earnings. But a player who has been "hooked," even if he frequently loses, rarely gives up the game voluntarily...