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Gilbert Pew was a tank driver in "the Nam," where he was seriously wounded. He returned home to New York to find that his wife of 1½ years had become a drug addict. Soon after, she left him, and her mother had Pew evicted from the couple's apartment. Unable to find housing and without a family of his own, he lived in an abandoned Harlem tenement with rats and junkies as his only neighbors for several weeks before finding a room. "Guys look forward to getting home and getting all those benefits the Army promised while...
...social worker is able to mobilize the responsive offices of Government to help reunite her family and leave the assistance rolls. The mother who with the encouragement of her social worker is able to complete her education and become a teacher in the local school system. The drug addict, the alcoholic, the people whom society and many other social agencies have given up on. The welfare rolls contain these stories also...
...neighborhood newspaper called Wisdom's Child, published on Manhattan's Upper West Side, begins by noting that life there "can be a delightful thing." That said, the editors offer a cutout page of emergency telephone numbers-for firemen, police, suicide prevention, addict assistance, a 24-hour locksmith, air pollution, a poison-control center and dial-a-prayer. The recorded prayer: "Oh Lord, I am very aware that I live in a world of muggers and purse snatchers. I earnestly pray for help to keep my perspective . . . and even if I am a victim of a crime, that...
...ghetto's massive health-care problems. Even so, they aim to expand their limited facilities, not cut back on their services. Garfield is seeking a Government grant for a health-care center similar to Bethany's. Bethany also hopes to start a methadone program for drug addicts next month. It is not waiting until then to do something about the drug problem. Accompanied by an ex-addict, a hospital pharmacist is busily touring neighborhood schools to warn children and help stop addiction before it begins...
...book opens, Didman's private world is collapsing along with his sense of proportion. His wife has divorced him. He has resigned his job and gone to live in the addict-infested slums of the Lower East Side. Tormented by the thought that his options were at best illusory, he becomes a 39-year-old Ginger Man, filled with rage and a ravening sexual lust in a city he wildly envisions as a racial prison camp...