Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doses as to be unsuited for wide use. Then Pincus and colleagues found that norethynodrel worked better and in far smaller doses. Pincus and Rock teamed with Puerto Rico's Dr. Edris Rice-Wray in a big-scale test of the drug as a contraceptive among San Juan slum dwellers. While "on the pills" only 16 out of 838 women in four study areas became pregnant and all 16 had skipped their pills occasionally. Equally important, among the 174 women who dropped out of the test because they had decided it was time to have another baby, conception occurred...
Scion of a wealthy landed Maryland family. Bruce led a Princeton campus revolt against the snobbish eating clubs, enlisted in World War I as a private, later won election to the Maryland assembly from a Jewish slum district, rolled up millions as a broker and entrepreneur (oil, race tracks, distilleries, newspapers), in World War II became chief of espionage and sabotage in Europe for the Office of Strategic Services, won military decorations from seven countries. As a postwar diplomat, lifetime Democrat Bruce helped to forge the Schuman Plan and European Defense Community. Last week the British could scarcely conceal their...
...large injections of Federal money do not guarantee the success of a given project, for urban renewal is a tricky and complex business. It can create as many new problems as it solves old ones. For example, it does no good to tear down a slum when you have no place to house those who are dispossessed and when the new housing will accomodate not slum dwellers but higher income residents. By giving the old inhabitants no new housing within their means, the urban renewal project has merely hastened the creation of a new slum somewhere else. These mistakes...
Racial prejudice is another serious difficulty in urban renewal. Some Negroes, economically able to live elsewhere, are forced to stay in the slums because they cannot find other housing. Private developers are reluctant to enter into Government-sponsored renewal projects, because the Government insists (quite justly) on racially integrated housing and realtors fear that integrated property won't rent. And, of course, the whole slum creation process often starts when a respectable Negro family moves into a white neighborhood: the whites move out and landlords divide the houses into smaller, more crowded units and reap the profits of a slum...
...Kennedy Administration, then, either through the present Housing Administration or through a Department of Urban Affairs (the latter might ultimately be more desirable), should actively encourage municipal governments to take the following steps: strengthen and enforce building codes, to make slum-owning a less lucrative proposition; pass and enforce legislation similar to the New York City ordinance prohibiting discrimination in private housing; explore the possibility of metropolitan area government to handle slums outside the city limits...