Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grade crossings, the five-mile-long New Basin Canal with its lift bridges. Hypertension was the pressure on the downtown nerve center because of a lack of parking space and too great a concentration of people in a few buildings. The third of the municipal ailments was the slum cancer...
...clean up much of the clutter inside and outside their buildings, but one spot has been missed: the area below the knees. This point came forcibly to Architect Eero Saarinen's attention about five years ago, when he "suddenly noticed that even the most modern room was a slum of legs." Last week Architect Saarinen took the wraps off a slum clearance project that he has been coaxing along secretly for four years at his Bloomfield Hills, Mich, office (TIME, July 2). His solution: a revolutionary design for one-legged, pedestal-based chairs, dining tables and coffee tables that...
...picture begins as the trial ends on a sweltering summer afternoon in Manhattan's Court of General Sessions. A heat-beat judge grumps his charge to a jury half dissolved with humidity and boredom. The camera takes one long look at the defendant, a scared little slum bunny accused of taking his old man apart with a switchblade, and follows the twelve men into the jury room-the main institutional horror that looks (and probably smells) as if it used to be a mop closet. For the next hour and a half the moviegoer never gets his nose...
...House of Representatives had already worked its budget-whacking way well past the $1 billion mark (about half of which, admittedly, would have to be restored with supplemental appropriations before the end of the fiscal year). From extermination of the South's fire-ant plague to slum clearance, all legislative eggs were candled by one light: What will it cost...
...seven U.S. mayors who marched into the White House in the company of Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert M. Cole. The mayors had a simple demand that typified Ike's budget problems, i.e., they wanted the President not only to fight for the $75 million in federal slum-clearance funds that Cole voluntarily cut from his budget but to release a $100 million housing reserve fund as well. Ike praised the mayors' announcement that cities were spending $10 for every $2 in federal aid. At the same time he lamented that the states, "the agencies with which...