Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple as to be almost nonexistent is Beckett's tale of two penniless, hapless, smelly tramps waiting, in a barren countryside, for a neighborhood personage named Godot. They chatter, gnaw carrots, tug at a tight shoe, talk of going separate ways and of hanging themselves, encounter a rich, unhappy magnate driving his servant before him as with whips. At the end of Act 1, a boy arrives to say that Godot cannot come that night but will the next. The next night, after further waiting and talking, a boy arrives to say that again Godot cannot come. As before...
Last week Hall angrily charged the Detroit press with burying news of the Rouse case (TIME, April 16), in which a part American Indian family was forced to move out of a Detroit neighborhood after a mob rioted around the house in the belief that they were Negroes. Commented Hall: "One paper ran it on page 3, one on page 16, and one on page 60. One story was only three paragraphs long. Anything like that happening in Montgomery would have made the lead story in all of those papers. Yet they ignore their own dirty wash. It makes...
Instead, he was visited by officers of the neighborhood improvement association, who "started questioning us and demanding that we sell to them." The shattered windows fresh in his mind, Rouse agreed. The sale price was $18,500, or $2,000 more than he paid; in return he was to move his wife Bertha, 70, his daughter Merle Evelyn Hickman and her sons Alfred, 10, and Paul, 7, within 60 days. While the sale was being closed, a crowd of 500 milled outside; in a campaign that would have shamed racist South Africa, doorbells had been rung through the neighborhood...
...Holy Name Journal, national director of the Third Order of St. Dominic, founder-editor of the Torch. He not only could get along on five hours of sleep, but he also developed a flair for handling his delinquent parishioners. On Saturday nights he would make the rounds of the neighborhood bars, eye a backslider and say: "Shouldn't you go to confession tonight so that you can go to Communion tomorrow?" Gradually, the number of Holy Name Society members showing up regularly for Communion rose from...
...small businessman's growing prosperity, SBA took a modest share of the credit. To boost its own loan program, it teamed up with local banks to finance capital improvement loans for such small companies as neighborhood stores; in 1955's last half SBA approved $30,332,390 in loans, an increase of 20% over the previous six months. But SBA's proudest accomplishment is channeling a bigger share of Government contracts to small business. This year, said SBA, the Government will boost to $158 million its contracts with small businessmen, a gain of more than 100% over...