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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detroit has no single massive ghetto. Its Negroes, lower, middle and upper income, are scattered all over the city, close to or mixed in with white residents. But unemployment is high among Negroes (6% to 8% v. the over all national level of 4%) and housing is often abominable. It is particularly ramshackle, crowded and expensive around the scabrous environs of Twelfth Street, once part of a prosperous Jewish section...
...economic reforms, Kharkhov University Economics Professor Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12, 1965), has proposed some therapy for Russian prices. In a recent article, he called for the creation of a "three-tier" structure under which the state would fix prices for raw materials and fuel, set upper and lower limits for certain other standardized products (such as component parts and sheet metal), but allow market forces to set consumer prices...
...general level of makeup and writing is lower than that of white dailies. The Negro papers often take a jocular view of crime. A columnist for the Amsterdam News called "Mr. 125 Street" offers typical items :"Goldie Reed fled after his chin was creased while he was having a discussion with his wife. . . . Florence Smith of the Bronx and Ann Jackson of Brooklyn met in Harlem, and Jackson's neck was sliced." Such self-stereotyping repels many well-educated Negroes. "It hurts to read these papers," says a Negro student at Dallas' Bishop College, "because it makes...
...Parliament dared to call for the welfare state's demise, for such a proposal would be political suicide in New Zealand. But something had to be done to get wool sales going again. So, after weeks of deliberation, the wool commission decided to lower its protective floor price 8?, to a more realistic 39? per lb., for the coming year. It hopes that with a bit of luck, the state will have to buy little of the next crop...
...Boston school system has neglected its responsibility to Puerto Rican children. There were no special courses for them and, in many in-stances, older children were forced to attend lower grade classes in order to learn English...