Word: hough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. By the end of summer, as Stevens' example spread, 2,000 Negro youngsters were regularly and happily splashing in 22 private pools. With the help of volunteers, both black and white, Cleveland Adman Frank T. McDonough, 64, re-sodded lawns in a seven-block area in Hough, the city's ghetto. He has since marked 40 more blocks for the same treatment. "Some day I knew I was going to see my Maker," said McDonough, a devout Roman Catholic, "and he would say: 'You knew what was going on, what did you do about...
...much a part of the Vineyard scenery as colored clay cliffs and salt marshes. Its present editor, Henry Hough, 71, who bought it in 1920, is a regional novelist (Lament for a City) and folklorist (Thoreau of Walden). And he has never ceased to celebrate the charms of the Vineyard in his paper. "It ought to be the function of the newspaper," wrote Hough, who will continue as editor, "to keep guard and watch over the singularities of environment, heritage, custom, and response to challenges...
...bulldozed for grandiose, half-forgotten schemes, while their residents, mostly Negro, have been left to find new homes for themselves. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development earlier this year took the almost unheard of step of withdrawing $10 million in previously allocated renewal funds. Negro slums like Hough are as bad as any in the country, and seem ready to explode, as Hough in fact did in the summer of 1966, on any hot night...
...with the Spark. And things have been getting worse, not better. In a statistical profile of the Negro published by the Federal Government last month, Hough mirrored the national picture: while some Negroes are absorbed into the middle class, the hard core poor grow ever poorer and more numerous. Between 1960 and 1965 in Hough, median family income decreased from $4,732 to $3,966. The percentage of families headed by women increased from...
...Nonetheless, Stokes emerged from the primary as the clear favorite in the general election. He was an experienced, chipper, charismatic campaigner who could beguile white suburban clubwomen at tea and rap with soul brothers in Hough. He was a Democrat in a town that had not elected a Republican mayor in the past 26 years. And his opponent was Seth Taft, 44, who bore the multiple burdens of a stiff presence, the wrong party label plus nephewship to the "Mr. Republican" who co-authored the Taft-Hartley Act, longtime anathema to organized labor...