Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also has some notable experience with civil action. In 1977 he formed something called the Rock Brigade, 63 high school kids, all volunteers, who are still providing and servicing 440 garbage cans in the ghettos of the South Bronx to set an example of how to keep a neighborhood clean. Considering crime on the subways, Sliwa came to a conclusion. "Volunteer patrols," he recalls, "seemed the only way to show those bums the public's had enough...
...cult-happy '60s, a wealthy local matron fell under the swami's spell in India and invited him to Switzerland. Her generosity helped launch the Divine Light Center in a cluster of 15 houses, which the swami painted an offensive bright blue. Worshipful disciples pestered the neighborhood with nonstop proselytizing. From 4 in the morning on, loudspeakers bellowing holy chants echoed through the district. The stolid burghers finally lost patience and in 1975 won an official order to have the swami expelled from the country...
What does all this mean to the viewer? Generally, programming of greater diversity and sophistication than can be seen on network TV. What exactly the viewer sees, however, varies with the type of cable service offered in a new subscriber's neighborhood, and also with his or her choice. Essentially, there are two kinds of hookups...
What followed, however, would have been remarkable if not unthinkable in Chicago or in many other major American cities just a few years ago. Gay Life, a local homosexual weekly, organized street patrols to stop the assaults. They were also aided by "straight" volunteers from neighborhood community associations. Moreover, they were helped by the Chicago police. Says a rather astonished Grant Ford, publisher of Gay Life: "The community groups came to our help right away. They saw us as neighbors rather than gays. The police were even more amazing. They were totally cooperative...
Robert Case, a professor at Northeastern University and a member of the Mobilization for Survival, told the crowd that "we have all learned a lesson from Harrisburg.... We've learned from this accident that Hiroshima is in our neighborhood." Case called the Three Mile Island nuclear accident "the greatest domestic problem of the decade...