Word: harlem
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...armories to refugees from heatless buildings. As many as 2,000 people-mainly mothers with young children-fled their frigid homes to sleep, eat, read, iron and pass the gloomy days on Army-issue cots. Elizabeth Martinez brought her two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, to an armory in Harlem. Said she: "They were getting sick with colds and fever all the time. My little one's hands were green and frozen from the cold. The water was frozen in the toilet bowl...
...Atlanta burned, Butterfly gave haunting memory to the line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!" Looking as fresh and freckle-faced as ever, Butterfly and her quavery drawl have now returned to Atlanta. Still a part-time playground assistant in Harlem, she will act as hostess for the Gone With the Wind Museum for the next four months. Then, who knows? After all, tomorrow is another...
...accustomed to citing. On top of these, he faces rising unemployment, monstrous interest rates and U.S. industries (like cars) that are running on square wheels. And there are difficulties that are his, which he may not see. What happens to a black teen-ager in Harlem or Watts in a free enterprise system that leaves him free to go to hell...
...native of New York City's Harlem, Nuri earned a high school scholarship to Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts from the Boys Clubs of New York. After participating in musical activities and student government, he entered Harvard in 1972 to concentrate in government. He didn't leave until 1979, taking three years off to manage produce stands in Cambridge and later New York and to support his family. Married at 18, the 26-year old Nuri has daughters ages six and seven...
Mugabe's first stop in the U.S. was Harlem, where he appealed for solidarity between American and African blacks. His audience replied with cheers, raised fists and chants of "Mu-ga-be." But officially he had come to the U.S. to address the U.N., where his nation formally took its place as the 153rd member in the General Assembly. With a certain irony, the Zimbabwe delegation was seated right behind that of Britain, its former colonial master. Mugabe, however, had no time for recriminations. He praised Britain for "a job well done" in negotiating the turnover of his country...