Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DRESSED in old clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
Crisis Sunday. In Boston, Jewish philanthropies donated buildings valued at $1,250,000 for a community and cultural center in the Roxbury slum. In Washington, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle announced a moratorium on all new Roman Catholic church building and improvements so that funds would be freed to "help relieve the chronic causes of poverty in our midst." In Portland, Ore., the Council of Churches designated May 5 "Summer Crisis Sunday," when each congregation will be asked to provide decent jobs for slum dwellers and help provide support for summer programs...
...York, IBM disclosed plans for a plant to make computer cables in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant slum; starting within two months, the factory will employ 300 workers, mostly unskilled, by the end of 1969. Planning is already far advanced, under the federal model-cities program, for something like 4,000 much-needed housing units in Bedford-Stuyvesant and other slum areas of New York. Earlier this month, the Fairchild Hiller Corp., working with a black community group, opened the doors of the new Fairmicco Corp. in Washington's Shaw area. Eventually, Fairmicco, which will turn out such products...
Principal Burner. A little more honesty on all sides might, in fact, go a long way toward cooling the ghettos this summer. Speaking to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, Betty Furness, the President's adviser on consumer affairs, noted that gouging of slum residents by merchants and markets-an unsavory but common practice-is "a principal burner under any long hot summer." She added later: "The poor are paying more. The proof was right here in the streets two weeks ago," when rioters selectively burned and looted stores they considered unfair...
...nationwide, decade-long assault on urban atrophy. To be financed largely by issuance of bonds, his program would allot $30 billion to schools, parks and mass transit, and $60 billion to universities, hospitals and middle-income housing. He also called on industry to invest $60 billion in slum renovation. Unless a major effort of that scope is undertaken, Rocky argued, the U.S. will remain "at one and the same time the affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next day, he warned that such spending would only feed inflation and thus starve the slum dweller. Nixon turned with...