Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policemen will spend anywhere from a few minutes to an hour relaxing in the box-sized living room of a man who neighborhood residents simply call "Winehead." A blind man with a wife and family to support, Winehead sells liquor in his home. His wife buys it at one of the "state stores" supervised by Alabama's beverage control commission. On Sundays or late in the evening, when the state stores are closed, Winehead's business picks up. The profit averages $60 per week -- split 50-50 with the two cops on the three-to-eleven shift...
CARL SANDBURG READS FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY "ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS" (Caedmon). In heartfelt tones, the ancient recorder of Americana shares his remembrances of a Midwestern childhood, school days, the neighborhood circus coming to the empty lot down the street, the daily pumping for water in the backyard, the parade marking the death of Ulysses S. Grant...
...want a black principal and black teachers for our black children," one mother shouted through a loudspeaker outside the school. On opening day, other, quieter Negro mothers led their children to the school and were turned back by Negro pickets. School Superintendent Bernard Donovan compromised, agreed that a neighborhood council could "screen" school personnel, even though the city school board cannot legally delegate its hiring and firing powers to laymen...
...could find his desk. Switch board operators, unfamiliar with the personnel, fouled up phone calls. Files were locked and the keys were missing. Page proofs were misplaced and lost for hours. Copy boys, new to the neighborhood, wasted precious time on the coffee run. Then, when the presses were finally ready to roll with the first issue of the World Journal Tribune last week, pressmen balked at the, plan to have Mayor Lindsay press the starting button. After all, he is not a union...
...Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. On the first day, 150 pram-pushing women from the neighborhood lined up to pay the 10? registration fee. Nine days later, the clinic was raided by policemen and-a particularly galling circumstance to her-policewomen...