Word: slum
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...tourist delights the resident artist as he sits on his fire escape in the evening, five floors up, smoking grass and listening to Dylan. For SoHo is nothing like the traditional fantasy of bohemia. It is irreplaceable, one of the few areas of New York that is neither a slum nor a spectacle...
Such statistics invite a protest movement, and it fell to a long-haired, slim, intense youth named Saadya Marciano, 20, to organize it. Born in Marseille while his wandering father was in transit from Morocco to Israel, Saadya is one of nine children and a product of a Jerusalem slum called Musrara. He entered the army at 18, spent nearly half his seven months of service in jail, and was finally discharged as unfit. Since then, unable to get a job because of his service record, he has spent his time idling with other Arab-speaking Sephardic youths in Musrara...
...Hangs around slum areas, few rich friends, often sneaks out into the desert...
...resort to violent methods) and the widespread campaign to improve living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested him as an "agitator in a cassock...
...could summer in the Sinai, while Labor Secretary, James Hodgson, might spend August in downtown Detroit. A summer on Wall Street might hone Treasury Secretary, John Connally's mind. Commerce Secretary, Maurice Stans could work out of the Baltimore docks, and HEW Secretary, Elliot Richardson out of any slum of his choosing...