Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government's new antipoverty programs are directed toward the 2,800,000 poor Negro families. In many ways, they get more attention than the 9,100,000 poor white families, which are tucked away in such areas as the Appalachians and the Ozarks, the southern Piedmont, the Upper Great Lakes region and the Louisiana coastal plain. Half the people in the Job Corps and most of the preschoolers in the Head Start program are Negroes. By the latest official measure, poverty has been declining with equal speed among both whites and Negroes-about 31% a year-but the Negro...
Irondequoit, an affluent suburb of Rochester, N.Y., has taken 50 first-and second-graders from the city's Negro areas. In Los Angeles, 310 Negroes from first grade to high school have been transplanted daily into such upper-class neighborhoods as Bel Air. Cincinnati is bussing 100 city Negroes out of their neighborhoods, including some into its suburban perimeter...
...specifies that the suspect be placed in a line-up with similar persons in similar dress. Simmons was ordered to wear a white shirt and dark trousers and brought into the room with white-coated doctors. Hilda by then could hardly speak; a bullet had destroyed her tongue and upper teeth. The prosecutor leaned close and only he heard her alleged words: "Yes, it is he. May God forgive me if I am wrong...
Kresge knew well how to pinch pennies-or at least nickels and dimes. He bought his clothes off the ready-to-wear racks, traveled in a Pullman upper berth because the fare was lower than for the lower. He allowed himself the luxury of a 10? shoeshine, but stopped after his shoeshine boy raised the price to 15?. Colleagues once persuaded him to take up golf as a hobby, along with beekeeping he had enjoyed since boyhood, but he soon gave up the game because he lost too many golf balls. Invited to speak at the 1953 dedication of Harvard...
Senior right wing Steve Griffith scored the fourth goal late in the final period taking a through pass from center forward Jamie Niven and driving a hard right-footed shot into the upper right corner...