Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Office Building, once the scene of the McCarthy censure hearings. One by one, the mayors of eight of the largest U.S. cities took their place behind a makeshift wooden table to describe their problems to the Senate Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization, holding its second week of hearings on the plight of U.S. cities. The subcommittee heaped lavish praise on Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh. It had kind words for Oakland's John H. Reading, praised New Haven's Richard C. Lee and Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. Chairman Ab raham Ribicoff of Connecticut and New York...
Last week the cities, which have long complained of indifference at the hands of Congress and state legislatures, held the center of the stage as an immediate national concern. In Washington, a Senate subcommittee met to investigate what can be done about the worsening plight of the city and its poor, whose frustrations and resentments have erupted in a succession of bloody riots every summer since 1964. And Lyndon Johnson, who is acutely aware that his Great Society can hardly stand on a foundation of urban decay, took up the cry for action during a threeday, five-state trip through...
...picked up others along the way. In Buffalo, he also met New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and they both took a look at sewage-contaminated water. In Syracuse, the crowd of 100,000 in Columbus Square listened to Johnson's review of the cities' plight, but really stirred only when New York's Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits arrived. Bobby evoked shrieks, was still shaking hands as the President climbed back into his limousine. Johnson spent the night at the Nevele Country Club, a resort on the fringe of the Borscht...
When the cops hauled Mihajlov away last week, his friends said that they would carry on without him. Their defiance would have earned a bullet 20 years ago in Tito's dictatorial heyday. Tito has mellowed since then, but he still must draw the line somewhere. His plight is that of all post-Stalin Communists: how to satisfy a people's craving for liberty and not be swept away by the rush toward freedom...
Typically, the books have brightly colored pictures-on the cover and inside-of Negro, Puerto Rican and white children sitting together on tenement steps or splashing together in the spray of a fire hydrant. They depict the plight of slum children with touches of humor and pathos. One story tells of a kid who moves to Manhattan's Tenth Street and has to beat up the toughest boy on the block to be accepted. Main flaw in some books is that the integration is too tidy: illustrations too often show exactly three kids together-one Negro, one Puerto Rican...