Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Do Van Tron escaped from Saigon to San Jose in 1982, no bank would take a chance on his business prospects. Do lacked a credit history, had no money and spoke no English. Today, however, the 31-year-old refugee publishes a Vietnamese-language newspaper, tools around town in a silver Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club...
...consider this a victory that I just won," he said. Caprio placed advertisements in his town paper, and enlisted the help of family and friends, who "called everyone we could think of." On election day, Caprio supporters were stationed at key polling places and he finished fourth among Dukakis delegates in his district, topping 21 other candidates...
David Brinkley's Washington Goes To War takes the latter view. And Brinklev's description of the transformation of a sleepy, provincial Southern town into an energetic, thriving capital of action and power is more than your typical tale of war-time rationing and wage and price-controls. It is a fascinating portrait of the institutions, issues and individuals that dominated Washington from September 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland and America began its belated preparations to enter the war, up to mid-1945, when the Japanese surrendered...
...most of all, Washington Goes to War depicts the remarkable, and largely unintended and unforeseen, metamorphosis of the nation's capital in the course of a mere five years. Washington, D.C. grew from being a quaint Southern town into a bustling, overcrowded city, with an enormous, permanent bureaucracy...
...someone like myself who lived in Washington after it had already become a government town, the city Brinkley describes is still all too recognizable--the all-Black ghettos remain and the elitist social scene that once dominated can still be found in certain exclusive neighborhoods and institutions...