Word: pruitts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Commission on Urban Problems, headed by former Senator Paul Douglas, has castigated urban renewal as "a failure quite irrelevant to the housing needs of the poor." Some projects have turned into slums as squalid as the shanties that they replaced. St. Louis' Pruitt-Igoe project, hailed as an architectural gem when it was built in 1954 for $117 million, has become a center of vandalism, muggings, dope, sexual perversion, rape and homicide. Stairwells and hallways reek of old garbage and excrement. Recently, elevator repairmen refused to work in the buildings because of repeated sniping incidents. Despite low rents...
...pent-up rage and frustration of inhabitants of our black ghettos." As if to prove Young's point, the man chosen by Nixon to promote his black capitalism program-a major campaign pledge-angrily resigned last week. "It's useless to go on like this," said Philip Pruitt, who was assistant administrator of the Small Business Administration. "The President just didn't support the program. Rhetoric, rhetoric, rhetoric, but no support...
What's Wrong? From the California Real Estate Association, the court heard a far different story. Section 26 represents the people's overwhelming veto of "ill-conceived" laws forbidding private discrimination, said Los Angeles Lawyer Samuel O. Pruitt Jr. Those laws, he suggested, violated private-property rights under the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. In effect, they empowered the state to tell property owners to whom they must sell or rent...
...rights to ownership cannot be taken away except by due process," said Pruitt. "No such right to acquire other people's property exists. The nature of the right to acquire property always depends on the willingness of the other person to dispose of it." In short, by restoring state "neutrality," said Pruitt, California has simply returned to the U.S. Constitution and "restated the common law of all 50 states...
Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...