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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because I am a mere 17 years of age and am one person in a country of millions, what I say doesn't make much difference to anyone else. But what I have witnessed in the past week makes me feel somewhat sorry that I am even the small part of it that I am. I have seen my city, the fifth largest in the U.S., reduced by one-sixth its original size. Not by a tornado or flood, or any other act of nature or God, but because of people who somehow seemed to lose every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...beginning to think that the least well-qualified person to solve urban problems is the Horatio Alger offshoot from Ireland, Poland or Italy whose attitude toward the Negro is: We made it; let them. I hold that Paddy and Sambo are not the same people. Paddy's ancestors came here because they ran out of potatoes in Ireland, while Sambo was dragged here in chains, and kept in ignorance by Southern plantation owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...aimed at complete elimination of racial differences through intermarriage (though if Brazil and the Philippines are any measure, subtle new discriminations would arise based on how much cafe one inherited and how much laif). Harlem Black Nationalist James Lawson even demands "reparations" amounting to $7,000 for every black person in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Other 97% | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...high enough to keep the numbers fairly constant. Estimates of the U.S. rat population (largely guesswork) range from 90 million to 100 million, or about half as many rats as people. For New York City, the estimates run as high as 8,000,000, or one rat per person. The U.S. Department of the Interior figures that a rat eats 40 Ibs. of food a year, and spoils twice as much. The nation's total rat damage is roughly $1 billion a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epidemiology: Of Rats & Men | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

Republican opponents have characterized the supplements as a "socialistic giveaway." They argue that it is wrong to tax one person to pay another's rent. Also the program will undoubtedly foster racial and economic integration and this implication has contributed greatly to the opposition; it is probably why the 1966 act included a rider granting local officials veto power over supplement projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Can Salvage Rent-Supplements Plan | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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