Word: towns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long impatient with talk about Detroit's being "a shirtsleeve city," Anne Ford was determined to jack it up with some culture. Last spring she got the Metropolitan Opera to town for a fourperformance sellout. "Anybody who lives in a city, whether he is poor or rich," she said, "likes to think his city has polish...
...Deerfield, Ill., a velvet-lapel commuter suburb of Chicago, the citizenry took extraordinary measures to keep twelve Negro families out of town. Ostensibly, the voters endorsed a $550,000 bond issue which would buy a 22-acre home-development site in Deerfield and convert it into a public park. Actually, there was no need for such a park, or any desire for one-until Deerfield learned that Developer Morris Milgram planned to sell twelve of the 51 houses (at prices of $30,000 and up) to Negro families (TIME, Dec. 7). Panicking in their fear of declining land values...
...Town Without Trees. In the past decade, a million Arabs have huddled in camps in the Arab lands encircling Israel. They are, hostages to Arab governments' bitter reluctance to admit the existence of Israel or to prejudice the refugees' claim to what was once their homeland by the slightest gesture toward resettlement. And they are hostages also to the hard line of the Israeli government, which ingathers hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over the world but has no space to take back the Palestinian Arabs who once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle...