Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first elected 1952, and in his own words "renewed and rebuilt" the city of New Haven. Much of the worst slums of New Haven, near the waterfront, were razed early in Lee's tenure. He is about to begin renewal of the Hill neighborhood, but is opposed by citizen's associations made up of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in the area...
Cheaper in Clusters. Instead of monolithic developments, Levitt today has eleven neighborhood-size communities of varied styles and prices ($16,000 to $33,000) rising from Long Island to Cape Kennedy-plus operations in Puerto Rico and France. Last month he broke ground for subdivisions near Baltimore and Chicago, the latter his first venture in the Midwest. Earlier this year, he started the first of a contemplated chain of ten home-furnishing stores called Levittmark, Inc., at his Willingboro, N.J., development, 15 miles from Philadelphia. Two weeks ago at Willingboro, he opened his first colony of town houses-today...
Jefferson is the name of a musical airplane from San Francisco. Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Paul Kather, Jack Cassady, and Jorma Ludwing Kaukonen. Once they played for nothing in the pure air of Haight-Ashbury, a hilly San Francisco neighborhood. Lately they have straightened up a bit, just enough to become the first super-star hippy musicians in America's history. Their rock is harder than the Lovin Spoonful's, their lyrics are heavier than the Rolling Stones', their message is sweeter than the Beatles'--the Jefferson Airplane is closer to where it's at than anyone else...
...Rockefeller happily created Riverside Church-a stately imitation of Chartres Cathedral, whose 22-story bell tower dominates Morningside Heights. During Fosdick's pastorate, the church ministered primarily to the intellectual community near Columbia. Under McCracken, Riverside has become involved in trying to solve the problems of a declining neighborhood. Membership-now at an alltime high of 3,500-includes Negro and Puerto Rican poor as well as university professors. The church's seven-man staff of ministers has helped sponsor integrated housing, runs a preschool program and adult-education classes. Its radio station, WRVR, airs some...
...Fogelman alleged that street residents had complained to the owners that "we were ruining their neighborhood by bringing in mentally ill, or crazy people, and students who were odd-looking and beatniks of strange appearance...