Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harlem is hardly an affluent neighborhood. Yet some 232,000 people live there, making it more than worthwhile for five of New York's biggest banks to maintain branches around 125th Street, Harlem's main stem. They are Chase Manhattan (assets, $15.3 billion), First National City ($13.9 billion), Manufacturers Hanover ($7.6 billion), Chemical ($6.9 billion) and Bankers Trust ($5.1 billion). Dwarfed by these is the Freedom National Bank, which had, as of the close of last week's banking hours, precisely $9,605,878.07 in assets. Yet for all its relative puniness, Freedom National is growing fast...
...week long, New York lay under an eerie siege. From Manhattan's sky scrapers to the rows of neat little homes in Queens, from Harlem's tenements to the farthest reaches of Brooklyn, the bustle and excitement that symbolize the world's greatest city became a slow-motion mockery of itself. For the first time in history, the huge city was with out any mass public transportation, which had been shut down by a strike of its 36,000-member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched...
When he provided the original funds, the donor had a specific idea in mind. "He wanted to see if we could discover some quality that all these boys possessed, say at age ten, and thus be able to predict greatness from boys in Harlem at that age," Briggs explains. Only one consistent quality, difficult to predict, was found. "At some point in their boyhoods," says Briggs, "some thoughtful, sensitive adult came in contact with these boys and made a deep impression on them. In some cases, it was a neighbor, in others a priest, or perhaps a YMCA leader...
...York Mayor John V. Lindsay, playing a flute, leads all the rats out of Harlem. Authoritative sources say Mao Tse-tung is dying after an attack of German measles. For the 21st time, Harvard fails to award an honorary degree to Harry S Truman. Honorary degrees are awarded to Margaret Truman: "She rose from obscurity to musical eminence," Thomas E. Dewey: "A stunning campaigner, a flawless Chief Executive," and to 22 people chosen at random from the Boston telephone directory...
...recording of his July 18 speech, arrested him a week later for trying to organize a march in defiance of a city ban. His attorney argued that Epton was only trying to "do something both locally and nationally for the poor and oppressed." But the poor and oppressed of Harlem apparently have little use for the Progressive Labor Movement or for leaders of Epton's stripe. When the jury brought in its verdict, there were three spectators in the courtroom...