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...puppies, horticulture on window boxes and seeding bald lawns. Rather than driving tractors, youngsters learn to select, finance and insure used cars. Particularly for poor children, the projects teach what often amount to survival skills. Sewing sessions emphasize patterns that do not require sewing machines; in cooking, recipes feature low-cost staples like powdered milk and eggs. Several Indianapolis clubs have collaborated on programs to eradicate rats...
...razor blades were introduced by Wilkinson Sword, a British firm that few Americans had heard of; dry copiers were invented by an obscure company then called Haloid Xerox; the picture-in-a-minute camera was developed by Polaroid, a firm with no prior experience in photography. Similarly, the fast, low-cost oxygen steelmaking process was first tried in the U.S. by the relatively small McLouth Steel Corp. in the mid-1950s. A decade passed before U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel, which had enormous plants devoted to the old open-hearth process, used the new method on any large scale...
...accused other bankers of discriminatory hiring practices, and has made plans to add a woman, a black, a priest and a consumer activist to First Pennsylvania's board. He would like the Federal Reserve Board to have a double standard for reserve requirements, enabling banks to provide special low-cost loans for socially useful projects, including construction in housing-short areas and black business development. Last year his bank introduced "Earth Bonds," a form of savings bonds, with most proceeds going to programs aimed at controlling air pollution. But the bonds did not go over well, because they were...
...viewpoints were finally reconciled by offering, in effect, separate definitions for economic and racial discrimination. Economic considerations are not necessarily racially motivated, Nixon and Mitchell insisted, and the Federal Government should not coerce communities into building low-cost housing: "We will encourage communities to seek and accept well-conceived, well-designed, well-managed housing developments-always within the community's capacity to assimilate the families who will live in them." In Black Jack and other communities, however, suburbanites have used much the same language to keep low-income-and mainly black-families out, insisting that existing public service systems...
During the afternoon meeting. Saundra Graham, president of the Riverside Planning Team-residents of the neighboring Riverside community who have been fighting Harvard for low-cost housing over the past two years-spoke with women at the Center...