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Everywhere, the ghettos have the highest rates of crime. Especially vulnerable are sprawling public housing complexes like Atlanta's Bankhead Courts, where 90% or more of the 2,900 families are on welfare and are headed by females. Some of the families have been burglarized half a dozen times or more in the past year. Welfare checks
...Last weekend I spent a month as a resident of Bankhead Courts," wryly observed Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. Bankhead is a $10 million public housing project where 2,646 low-income black people live. Though the project was completed only four years ago, it started falling apart almost immediately; Jackson spent a weekend there as the guest of a widow and her seven children as a way of drawing attention to the wretched living conditions...
...vents that did not work, and came across 16 apartments that were uninhabited be cause they become flooded whenever it rains. He listened to residents complain about marauding gangs. "We wonder why people get mad living there," he said later, promising federal funds and more city services to improve Bankhead...
...mortar [but] flesh and blood." On the other hand, one of his frequent critics, the Atlanta Constitution, felt the visit was worthwhile as a symbolic act. The news paper reserved judgment about its effectiveness, however, noting: "It will be interesting to see if conditions are much better at Bankhead Courts six months from...
...Marriage, in which Nigel Nicolson tells about the affairs that his happily married mother, Poet Vita Sackville-West, had with Novelists Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. Other women, living and dead, whose bisexuality has recently been made known include Singer Janis Joplin, Writer Dorothy Thompson and Actresses Tallulah Bankhead and Maria (Last Tango) Schneider. "It has become very fashionable in elite and artistically creative subgroups to be intrigued by the notion of bisexuality," says Psychiatrist Norman Fisk of the Gender Dysphoria Program at Stanford University Medical School. It may very well be, he added, "a sociopolitical phenomenon as much...