Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the raises next Fall will be cold cash of the taxable variety. In general, increases will be in the neighborhood of ten percent...
...strongman's Venezuelan command post is a comfortable apartment on the eighth floor of an apartment building in a Caracas residential neighborhood. Protected from unwanted visitors by Venezuelan Seguridad National guards in the lobby downstairs and on the street outside, Perón works on comeback plans twelve hours a day, openly confers with visiting plotters. In his off moments, he strolls through a nearby park or motors through the countryside with his roommates, a blonde actress named Isabelita Martinez, a black poodle named Canela, and a white poodle named Picha. A frequent guest is Laureano Vallenilla Lanz, Venezuelan...
Ballots & Bail. Jimmy spent 25 years building his army among the hard-put widows and workingmen in his district. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, he handed out turkeys to neighborhood families. He bailed out errant youngsters and toughs, whispered pleas to magistrates, found jobs for the hopeless. He swept into local political primaries with ballot stuffers and phony votes, wrecked opposition organizations, beat off a Tammany headquarters attempt to stamp him out, maintained absolute power in his district...
Robert R. Duncan, a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee, recently outlined some of the long-range plans for City redevelopment. He listed a series of subcommittees at work on such varied problems as traffic, off-street parking, neighborhood rehabilitation, economic development and community facilities...
...Hard put to find a suitably African name for their new nation, the Ghanaians picked that of a black empire which flourished during the Middle Ages in the neighborhood of Timbuktu on the grounds that some of their ancestors probably came from there...