Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although plenty of Columbia's students and faculty are indifferent to the plight of their Harlem neighbors, the university is using $10 million of Ford Foundation funds on projects designed to improve housing, schools and legal services in the neighborhood. Nonetheless, Columbia Vice President David Truman concedes that "we simply have not been tooled up to manage our public image." Other officials concede that some residents of the rooming houses were ousted without proper regard for relocation. Belatedly, the university has set up its own relocation office, sometimes offers small grants to help tenants move. The great irony...
...same time catalyzed increased political activity. These students recognize clearly enough that the college campus no longer enjoys a privileged status in the eyes of the Southern police force. So that now the black college student need go no further than his own campus to realize that his plight is the same as any other Negro's suffering at the hands of the Southern police establishment...
...TIME'S article regarding the National Educational Television program on the plight of migrant farm workers [Feb. 16] contains a serious error. Huelga! is not a film about Mexicans working in California. It is a film that depicts a struggle to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. They are among the more than 6,000,000 Mexican American citizens who pay taxes, fight and die in Viet Nam and send their children to U.S. schools...
...mountain folk are functionally illiterate and condemned to idleness because their meager skills as coal miners have been obviated by the huge strip-mining machines that rip apart Kentucky's hillside seams. Federal aid to Appalachia, totaling $450 million since 1965, has done little to alleviate their plight. Industries that could bring work have shunned their ravaged landscape...
...respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system until the ears of the Russian sonar operator are numbed by the noise and the Soviet sub is finally forced to surface...