Word: slum
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...Daddy's Big Day Harlem, the densest concentration of Negroes in the world, is a world unto itself, occupying a fifth of Manhattan Island and stealthily creeping south. It is at once a dark and tragic slum, a thriving, neon-trimmed Main Street, a sparkling and earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway...
Tiger Bay. With masterful suspense, the camera moves through a Cardiff slum, following a young sailor who has murdered in disappointed passion, but cannot kill the only witness to his crime...
...sweeping changes of restless Idealist Robert Maynard Hutchins. College courses of broad generalization had buried traditional academic details. It fell to Kimpton to attend to details: an alarming drop in undergraduate enrollment because other schools feared Chicago's experimentalism; seedy living conditions because of an ugly, sprawling slum; a $1,400,000 deficit...
...convention votes," said he. "I believe that all delegates should have a vote in selecting the nominee." Then he sketched out his four-plank platform: 1) world peace through negotiation, with the U.S. leading from renewed strength; 2) a "sound public investment program in such fields as education, health, slum clearance . . . and more realistic benefits for the elderly and disabled"; 3) another "sound program" to buttress the position of the family-sized farmer; and 4) a no-nonsense civil rights policy...
...Africa's finest. Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, has hired Israeli engineers to build 77 miles of mountain road, and is thinking of getting Israelis to convert his slum-ridden capital, Addis Ababa, into a modern city. Israeli technicians are employed by many African nations to staff hospitals, train military forces, and produce experimental crops...