Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison parolees, prostitutes, narcotics addicts and drunks live among them. Over a recent three-month period, cops reported 96 felonious crimes, including murders, rapes and assaults. The David Starr Jordan High School, which serves Watts, is not legally segregated; yet its student body is 99% Negro. Watts is a slum-but not in the Eastern sense. There are no rows of mul tiple-story tenements or concrete canyons. Its streets are generally broad, occasionally tree-lined and bordered by dusty lawns. Its dwellings are mostly one-and two-story frame and stucco houses. But in the small rented houses...
...Boston was stagnant. There were several small projects in progress, but it was becoming apparent that these were not enough. Property values in Boston had dropped nearly a half billion dollars since 1930, and about 50 per cent of the city's residents were living in so-called "slum-dominated" neighborhoods. Mayor Collins imported Logue, who had earned a national reputation as the man who saved New Haven, Cons. After some political hassling, Logue was installed as head of the BRA, which is a semiautonomous body created under state law to contract with federal and other urban renewal agencies. Logue...
...concept of a "church without walls" leads many a clergyman to set up a ministry in a supermarket, a slum or a ski lodge. The Rev. Reuben Gornitzka, 47, who applauds this impulse, believes that "the church has always tended to ignore the very rich and the very poor - especially the very rich." So his church without walls, run with the backing of his superiors in the American Lutheran Church, is a unique personal ministry to millionaires, film stars, professional men and corporation executives...
...GRAVELY, by Iris Dornfeld. A novel written by a musician about a slum boy who composes an electronic symphony and finally gets to hear it performed in the Hollywood Bowl. In telling about this unlikely hero, the author perceptively delineates the terrible disease and destiny that is genius...
...Missouri and Kansas for more than 40 years (one brother controls the City National Bank & Trust of Kansas City, the other the huge Kemper Investment Co. and a host of smaller banks), himself a bank president at 31, responsible for much of Kansas City's road building, slum clearance and downtown business renewal; by his own hand (pistol), after suffering from cancer for twelve years; in Kansas City...