Word: slums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edible plant identification has been replaced by a section on recognizing dangerous and illegal drugs. There is a picture of a Scout using a Geiger counter. Treatment for snakebite is still discussed, but the text also offers advice on what to do if bitten by such urban wildlife as slum rats. ("Be sure that the animal's saliva is all washed away . . . Get medical help...
Riverside, a predominantly black slum area on the fringes of Harvard, huddles directly across the Square from the fashionable Brattle Street area where Cambridge's middle class white liberals pay an average of nearly $50,000 for their homes. To complete the potpourri, the neighborhoods of North Cambridge contain a blend of blacks elderly people, working class families, students grouped in apartments, and Cambridge's wealthy who inhabit the shady lanes west of Kirkland...
...hardly looks like the usual equipage for a bishop who was a slum priest and marched at Selma: a 70-ft., three-bedroom, three-bath cabin cruiser anchored in San Francisco Bay, its brass-filigreed bow and mahogany-planked deck gleaming in the sun. But for California's boat-loving C. Kilmer Myers, the Daring will serve as a year-round home-and Myers is paying the reported $50,000 price out of his own pocket. When Myers was elected to the see of California in 1966, after the resignation of the late James A. Pike, he inherited...
Film Odyssey: Los Olvidados. A 1950 film by Luis Bunuel, at once a scathing portrayal of Mexican slum sub-culture, and a kick in the pants of liberal reformers who try to change men's hearts instead of concretely ameliorating social conditions. CHANNEL 2, FRIDAY...
Riverside, a predominantly black slum area on the fringes of Harvard, huddles directly across the Square from the fashionable Brattle Steet area where Cambridge's middle class white-liberals pay an average of nearly $50,000 for their homes. To complete the potpourri, the neighborhoods of North Cambridge contain a blend of blacks, elderly people, working class families, students grouped in apartments, and Cambridge's wealthy who inhabit the shady leaves west of Kirkland...