Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope that the government would pay them later; he was arrested and convicted of "invading government ground" (TIME, April 9, 1956). Most recently, in his crusade for decent housing, 33-year-old Danilo Dolci outraged official sensibilities with a book depicting the miseries of Palermo's slum dwellers...
...book won the prestigious $1,600 Viareggio literary award, and last month the Rome Court of Appeals reversed Dolci's conviction. In complete capitulation, Palermo authorities announced a program to tear down Cascino Courtyard and the neighboring slum called Hole of Death, relocate their 1,200 inhabitants in new low-rent public housing. It was, said Italians, a victory for the poor...
...last week it was plain to Journal readers-and to the rival Dispatch-that the feud had turned abruptly to friendship. In two exclusive Journal stories on the administration's slum-clearance projects, rewritemen carefully restored the Jr. to Jim Murray's name, while Editor Farrell ran the politician's picture on Page One for the first time in months. City Hall, in turn, promised to restore the Journal's traditional half-share of legal ads. Lucky Farrell promptly forged ahead with plans for a morning edition to compete with the Dispatch, started interviewing staffers from...
...Association to paint, in terms of his "greatest anxiety," the dismal picture of the "City of the World." The U.S., said he, would have to work harder on defense, expand foreign aid. But it could by no means back out on any of its welfare programs, e.g., "education, slum clearance, health, social security." Guns plus butter, Stevenson admitted, would "take a lot of money." How could it be done? And what about inflation? Quipped Adlai Stevenson: "Well, that's another speech-probably for a Republican...
...Tear it down. Cut the gab," cried an impatient Cambridge citizen behind us, one of the large crowd that assembled at Rogers Block, behind M.I.T., yesterday afternoon to witness the symbolic destruction of the first slum building of the urban renewal program...