Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent Patricia Delaney when she revisited her former Beverly Hills condominium. Delaney was still riding high over the $10,000 profit she had made 18 months earlier, when she sold the condominium after being reassigned to Chicago. But, says Delaney, "my joy turned to dismay after seeing my old neighborhood. My condominium was for sale again-at $55,000 more than my 1976 selling price...
...Bertram) in Philadelphia and Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio, had never heard of him. His Army service number had never been officially issued. There was no record of his birth certificate, and his old Philadelphia home address turned out to be a vacant lot in an all-black neighborhood. When court proceedings and IRS collection procedures blew his cover in 1973, Tycoon Maris was forced to leave San Francisco in terror for his life...
Silverman is probably the first network programmer who grew up laughing ?and crying?at TV. Since his father was a television repairman, his family started sitting around the tube earlier than most. After high school in Rego Park, a middleclass, largely Jewish neighborhood 20 minutes by subway from Manhattan, Freddie went to Syracuse University in upstate New York. He majored in broadcasting at Syracuse's School of Speech and Dramatic Arts and then went to graduate school at Ohio State. In 1959, with what now seems like inspired prescience, he wrote his master's thesis on ABC. "The phrase...
...help group, says: "It is bad to be in the slum, but it is worse when the slum is in you. The spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in patrolling ghetto schools and street corners, has launched a drive for black parents to monitor strictly their children's homework and schooling, and has urged that voter registration cards be handed to each high school graduate along with a diploma. Says he: "Nobody will save...
...crowded barrios of South America knows that looting on the scale that occurred in New York could almost never happen there?and not because the army would be standing by to shoot looters. Family structure has not broken down in South America. Nor has the idea of a neighborhood. A child usually feels that he lives in both in a Latin American city. In a U.S. urban ghetto, he often belongs to neither...