Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here than any place in the world." He teetered on the concrete border of a Union Square flower bed and praised "one of the greatest civilizations of the world, here on the rim of the Pacific by the Golden Gate." He shook hands in a mixed Negro and Japanese neighborhood, wore a sombrero and scrape and cried "Viva" in a Latin American community, sat at a green-topped table with 16 Chinatown moguls...
...Life. The government's eventual goal is to shuffle them into separate communities. Last month, as offi cials began enforcement of a 1950 law forbidding members of one race to move into quarters formerly occupied by another race, the first of what may be thousands of little neighborhood tragedies unfolded in a Johannesburg court...
...array of friendly white neighbors took the stand to testify that Nicholas was accepted as a white in the neighborhood. But a more dramatic witness, a tan woman, took the stand, and carefully avoiding Nicholas' eyes, said: "My name is Susan Jacobs. I am the sister of the accused. I am colored and married to a colored. The accused is a colored." Crossexamined, she then blurted that two other brothers live as Europeans. Evidence piled up: colored, colored, colored...
Speaking before the Cambridge Council of Neighborhood Associations, he reiterated his statements, made before the Associated Harvard Club's meeting in Miami, April 7, saying that the "backlog of needs" built up since the 1930's is becoming urgent...
...hung three American flags out of his Fifth Avenue window and awaited the sheriff. He died broke at 95, with little but his medals and a fame that already belonged to another age. He may not have been the ideal leader of a boys' club or the neighborhood Cub troop, but he was a mean man in the clinches and never dull...