Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harper Woods, near Detroit, parents demanded an ordinance to prohibit a local drive-in from showing "objectionable" pictures. Reason: neighborhood children were watching the drive-in screen at night from their bedrooms-especially Jane Russell's often-banned French Line. The youngsters, claimed their fathers, were happy to scoot up to bed; moreover, they did not mind lack of sound from the film...
...muggy night last week, two detectives walked out of their precinct station across from Louis Sobel Park in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. One of the plainclothesmen had worked the district for 31 years. He remembered when it was a "real swell" neighborhood. Now it is seedy. Not a slum, not by any definition the worst part of New York, but a down-at-heels place where respectable people, said the policeman, are not safe outdoors at night...
...from good homes; they belonged to the old, respected element. Ignorance? All had good school records. Organized crime? None belonged to hoodlum gangs which are the farm clubs of the New York underworld. Three of the four had been summer camp counselors; they liked athletics, played handball, swam at neighborhood pools, liked books and music...
...average American household is beset, from breakfast to bedtime, by a multitude of problems. He is expected to cope with everything from mortgages and merit badges to carburetors and kittens. The President of the U.S., as head of a family of 162 million and a leading figure in the neighborhood of nations, has similar headaches, multiplied a millionfold. Last week, at a lengthy cleanup press conference before he leaves for a Denver vacation. President Eisenhower let the White House reporters in on a few of the staggering problems that currently preoccupy...
Things Are Nothing. Albright paints in an old wooden house in a dreary down-at-the-heel section of Chicago. "I like this neighborhood." he says. "I can think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about...