Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Education Association's major resolutions at their convention [TIME, July 19] are two items which I feel will help to further education as a profession, but which will . . . help to bankrupt the country . . . Being a teacher and a member of N.E.A., I would appreciate receiving in the neighborhood of $4,000 to $9,000 per annum. Being a taxpayer, I would appreciate some relief from heavy taxes...
...Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...cars to deliver babies, as one nurse put it, "just about everywhere except in the maternity shop at Marshall Field's." Says tall, greying Dr. Beatrice E. Tucker, who, as Founder De Lee's successor, has been with the center 22 years: "This is the most fascinating neighborhood I know. You are located exactly where you can do the most good...
...prophetic Brahman priest, over a property line that separated their two estates. In the midst of the dispute, the priest saw fit to establish a low-caste mistress in his house. The upright Singh, married and the father of children, was outraged. He charged the Brahman with polluting the neighborhood and demanded that the priest get rid of his girl friend. The priest refused; angry words flew; other Brahmans and other Thakores joined the ruckus. Before it was over, the priest and three of his relatives lay dead...
Unfortunately the captain's paradise is close to some of the choice fishing streams and game forests in the neighborhood. Captain Hord seemed to spend more time running off trespassers, complaining to the sheriff and fencing off his five acres than he spent fishing and hunting. A strong antipathy grew up between the Hords and the natives. At the end of last summer, before he went back to his home in Rockport, Texas, Captain Hord worked out an elaborate plan to secure his dream house against trespassers. Inside the pantry he set up a loaded .22-cal. pistol. Only...