Word: shaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boardwalk. Park Place. Ventnor and Atlantic Avenues, not to mention Marvin Gardens. The streets of Monopoly are places of childhood dreams and opportunity, open to anyone with the luck of the dice and a fat enough bankroll to buy there. But not Grosse Pointe and Shaker Heights, Bethesda, Georgetown and San Clemente. They are parts of a new and different game, one in which the color of a buyer's skin may well shut him out of the property he wants, and even drive him off the board...
...recipients of the Knox Fellowships are: John W. Curtis, of Lowell and Ft. Meade. Md. (History and Literature); Logan D. Delany, of Eliot and New York City (Economics): Richard A. Frank, of Quincy and Flushing. N. Y. (Biochemical Sciences): Alan Geismer. of Lowell and Shaker Heights, Ohio (English...
...Franchise Holder. Charles E. Johnson, 43, got into the franchised fast-food business through a combination of belated Government aid and militant pressure. The Small Business Administration rejected his first application for a loan to buy a McDonald's hamburger franchise near a Negro area of affluent Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb, because officers thought the location he wanted would not produce enough income to repay the loan. They did not realize, says a Cleveland Negro leader, that to blacks "the hamburger stand is breakfast, lunch and dinner-they don't just buy hamburgers as a snack...