Word: slum
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...Heard the first report on an impressive drive to raise $50 million for capital expenditures. The "Fifty Million Fund," which has nearly $5,000,000 in the bank, will sponsor such programs as the renovation of Inner City slum churches, additions to hospital facilities in nearly two dozen countries, new religious centers at state universities. More than $11 million will be spent to improve Presbyterian seminaries...
...Marksdale Garden apartments. These were built on slum-cleared land by a church congregation is mostly Negro. The housing itself is mixed...
...Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island. Residents of a green and pleasant Staten Island community might almost have been hearing about a foreign country last week when Congressman Lindsay told them of a city where "streets are dirty and unsafe . . . crime and brutality are rampant . . . and the vicious cycle of slum-living continues...
...setting was exquisite, the guest list impressive, and, as President Sukarno paid tribute to himself on the tenth anniversary of the birth of the Afro-Asian bloc at nearby Bandung, his taste was as impeccable as ever. Screening off unsightly slum areas, Sukarno laced Djakarta's avenues with flags and festive arches, assigned each of the 35 Afro-Asian emissaries-from Chou En-lai to Imperial Princess Ashraf of Iran-his own personal motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens...
...sleazy, wide-open border town of Tijuana attracts hundreds of pleasure-bent college students each spring. One band of California youngsters, 300 strong, had more to show for their Mexican trip this year than hangovers or tourist trinkets. They spent Easter vacations in Tijuana's forlorn slum district, building an X-ray clinic, a food and drug warehouse, a free-milk bar for youngsters and a 16-crib hospital for infants...