Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mellowed by their hefty profits, pot farmers in the Northwest have evolved into a genuine subculture of the farming community. Many of them were urban hippies who migrated to the region seeking a pastoral lifestyle. These days, they look like the "straight" native farmers of the back country and follow similar seasonal rituals...
...income families in particular, the programs of HEW and its complementary state agencies help make life normal, if not exactly comfortable. The Palmers are a hypothetical, but typical low-income family in an urban setting that is receiving its legal share of HEW's substantial offerings. Paul Palmer, 45, and his wife, Jane, 40, live in Boston with their four children. In addition, Jane's mother and Paul's father are part of the family...
...Paul Adams, 37, a black Protestant who took a pay cut from his job as manager at a fast-food outlet to become the school's $15,000-a-year principal in 1972. "He's mean," says a student, using a ghetto compliment. Also tough. Adams inherited the usual urban school woes. Says he: "There were kids on dope, gangs in the hallways. I was appalled." He instituted a shape-up-or-ship-out policy that public schools cannot follow. Students are fined or assigned mandatory chores if they are tardy or cut class; vandalism, drug use and academic failure...
...covers a third of the school's budget (the rest comes from tuition and assorted fund-raising ventures). The cost per pupil runs $1,300 a year, compared with a $900 average in the archdiocese (and $1,700 in Chicago public schools). The cruel story is repeated in many urban ghettos. The church is unable or unwilling to subsidize education for non-Catholics (60% of the Providence-St. Mel enrollment), but the law does not permit tax money to help out because the schools are under religious sponsorship...
Vernon E. Jordan Jr., executive director of the National Urban League--Doctor of Laws...