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Only the dwellers in other high buildings seem dismayed by the arrangement. Paying steep prices for their own apartments, they often discover that they look into a high-rise slum rather than over the grandeur of Mexico City...
...While that matter awaited a decision by Milwaukee's common council, the associates undertook other projects-planting wheat in another vacant South Side lot (a bill was sent to the Department of Agriculture for subsidy payments of $294), establishing an informal bus service for the aged, and inspecting slum housing...
Though patterns were her favorite preoccupation, people's faces brought her the most fame. Bourke-White portraits of suffering slum dwellers or world statesmen showed the same deep sensitivity. Her persistence and unceasing quest for perfection once led Mahatma Gandhi to dub her "the torturer." Churchill scowled memorably for her; she coaxed a rare smile out of a stone-faced Stalin, she explained, by assuming "all kinds of crazy postures searching for a good camera angle." In World War II she became the first accredited woman war photographer. While covering Russian soldiers fighting the Nazis within 150 miles...
...loans, nearly as much as it takes out of them in the form of savings deposits. Although Citibank holds $2 billion in individual savings, the Nader group noted, only $500 million is invested in residential mortgages. In view of the social blight sweeping most great U.S. cities, especially in slum areas, the investigators' point is not unreasonable. The bank's retort-perhaps inadequate -is that Citibank handles more mortgages than other major New York banks. However, the principle that banks must invest close to home is not one that the highly mobile U.S. has followed in the past...
...expect him to depart from those traditional goals. Should he favor the poor borrower over the rich one? The black over the white? The local community over the far-off one? And who is to decide? The Raiders believe that, for example, the bankers have an obligation to finance slum housing, even if they have to offer special mortgage rates so low that they lose money. When confronted with that argument, one Citibanker asked: "What does that do to the U.S. banking system?" Replied a Raider: "I'm worried primarily about the cities...