Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Campaign of Slum Clearance...
Wise cited the Schools of City Planning at both the University and M.I.T, and the wealth of both universities as valuable assets in a campaign of slum clearance and rebuilding. Since middle-income families are not eligible for public housing benefits, such a campaign would have to come from private enterprise...
...minority statement of the Committee objected that the majority had failed to set forth a plan of action in its annual report. A report not containing plans for slum clearance and rebuilding is unrealistic," the minority said...
Mambo (Ponti De Laurentiis; Paramount) is offered as "the exalting story of a slum girl who attains integrity through her experiences with men and her love of the dance." Still, it might be advisable to have a look at the picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count...
...keep the welfare state and maintain full employment. "Any economist who talks of pools of unemployment should be thrown in and made to swim in one," says Chancellor Butler flatly. But Eden and Butler both expect to pay more attention to "Tory democracy," meaning tax cuts to stimulate investment, slum clearance by private builders, better roads and railroads...