Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispersing Negroes more evenly throughout the population, but the low-income slum dweller is actually least likely to be affected. He is too often psychologically reluctant to forsake the emotional security of the ghetto and financially incapable of doing so. It is the educated Negro with a middle or upper income who is most eager-and able-to get out of the ghetto and explore the society around him. Actor-Comic Bill Cosby (costar of TV's / Spy) lives in a $70,000 Beverly Hills spread, for example, and Federal Reserve Board Governor Andrew Brimmer...
...modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife (and bliss), digestive strains, telephone bells ("Is it ours or theirs?"), new hi-fis and old TV commercials. Pounding on the wall is no solution: it is all too likely to collapse...
THUNDERBIRD GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Third round of the $100,000 Thunderbird Golf Tournament live from the Upper Montclair Country Club, Clifton, N.J. Fourth and final round on Sunday from...
...last academic year she buckled down earnestly to her nursing studies. Pat calls her "much more mature than other girls her age." To Luci, her sober, self-possessed fiancé is "a gentle man, a kind man, a fun man." And, she vows, "he will always have the upper hand...
Putting people to sleep was Dr. Carl Coppolino's specialty, and it paid well. In 1962, the 30-year-old anesthesiologist, with his wife Carmela, also a physician, built a $34,000 home at 35 Wallace Road in Fox Run, an upper-middle-class development in east-central New Jersey. As the Coppolinos' house was going up, another was rising diagonally across the street. The builders of 50 Wallace Road were Colonel William Farber, then 50, a bemedaled World War II veteran who had retired after 21 years in the artillery, and his wife Marjorie...