Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is just a beginning," warned Hickel. Next on his agenda are the major polluters along the Passaic and Savannah rivers. After that? Hickel just smiles grimly...
...Sudan's three rebellion-wracked southern provinces sprawl across the turbulent boundary line between the Arab world to the north and Black Africa to the south. It is in these provinces, where the grassy savannah meets the tropical forest, that the clash between the two worlds has been bloodiest. Africa's largest country in terms of area, the Sudan is dominated by the 9,000,000 Arabs of the north; the south's 4,000,000 blacks have long felt ignored by the Moslem politicians in Khartoum. In 1955, a year before the Sudan achieved independence, black...
Heard, born in Savannah, received his doctorate in political science from Columbia (1951) and learned administration as dean of the graduate school at the University of North Carolina. His first move on taking over as chancellor of Vanderbilt in 1963 was to call in student leaders to discuss campus affairs, a move that got him off to a good start with the student body. He then requested a written self-appraisal from each department, getting response from 285 faculty and staff members. This netted him a 4,400-page report 16.3 inches high, all of which he read and used...
...political conservative with segregationist sympathies. His dealings with non-U.S. blacks over the last two years, when he helped organize the Jamaica Citizens Bank (49% owned by Citizens & Southern), radically changed his outlook. Back in the U.S., he drove around the slums of his native Savannah and was appalled by what he saw. "It is high time," he said, "that we get around to emphasizing what a person...
...Whisky. Business loans go only to those who show an ability to manage enterprises that promise to benefit the community. Thus CDC turned down applications for liquor stores and a hippie-trinket shop. Instead, it put Savannah's first Negro used-car dealer into business and financed dry-cleaning shops, groceries, beauty parlors, even a small firm that manufactures porches for mobile homes. Thus far, $1,000,000 has been distributed in loans ranging from $2,200 to $25,000. Another $1,000,000 went to the biggest slum landlord in Savannah, a Negro. The money will...