Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleased to see my wife Roni pictured in full-page color in TIME. The "image of the foetus" on the TV screen has since developed into a beautiful baby girl, named Stacey Wynn, born Aug. 20 in Pittsburgh. We are proud to be the only ones in our neighborhood to have a baby album starting off with a picture at age minus two months...
Housing came first. After a number of successes CORE -- or rather the residents of Baltimore's lower-class Negro community -- turned to the issue of public accommodations. Then to welfare policy. Then to cleaning up the neighborhood. They set up a union that is now a recognized collective bargaining agent for six groups of laborers in the community. CORE organized the union; the union organized the other six groups...
...Palms. As a result, they now pump hands with a scientific assiduity that would have made the late Estes Kefauver look like a basket case. Can didates for congressional and statewide races nowadays do their best to avoid neighborhood coffee klatsches as too time-consuming in terms of voters palmed per hour. Instead, they bustle through factories, supermarkets and bowling alleys, developing calluses as they strive for 300 hands an hour. This year especially the individual candidate must grope his own way to success, since there are no presidential coattails to hang...
...husband fled south to Saigon in 1954, and she soon became known in the refugee-swollen quarter of Gia Dinh as a woman who got things done. She organized a neighborhood school, founded a Catholic Mothers' Association, arranged housing and relief allotments for widows...
Pettigrew and two associates, Dr. Thomas Crawford and J. Michael Ross, found that "behind resistance to school desegregation lies the greater fear of neighborhood desegregation; and even beyond that, fear that the old, good ways of life will change if the Negroes move...