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...windows at all. The garbage in the doorways is not a pile but a growth. On a street north of Charlotte a green Chevy lies on its back like a cleaned fish. Such things are seen not only in the South Bronx but also in Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, formerly a Jewish ghetto, now black. These areas too are worse off than they were four years ago. From a tenement roof in Long Island City, stately Sutton Place is in plain view across the East River. On the wall of a burned-out building in Harlem...
...RACE. "I been trying to get a job for two years," says Danny, a tall young black in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "Nothin'. My father, he tried for two years and then split. We haven't seen him for a year. So how do I live? I hustle... deal some dope, do a little stealing ... maybe even try to knock over a white newspaper reporter if I thought he had anything worth takin'. That's how a lot of us live out here...
There are 13 murders in Titus Andronicus, or an average of about one every twelve minutes. It is an early work (written in 1594), and the poetry is at odds with the fury, rampaging revenge pursued like a blood sport. Director Brian Bedford mitigates the gore, achieving a certain stoic Roman dignity. The drama's chief interest is that it offers embryonic models of characters who would dominate later tragedies...
...killing of a black youth by a white off-duty police officer, black leaders denounced the police and called for community action. When the crowd marched to a Harlem police station, scuffles with police erupted into a riot that lasted six days and also broke out in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The final toll: one dead, 143 injured, 461 arrested...
With $18,000 from a second mortgage on his house, a few hand tools, and his wife as bookkeeper, Robert Ozuna in 1967 founded an electrical contracting firm in his garage. Today his New Bedford Panoramex Corp. of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., occupies an 18,000-sq.-ft. building, employs 41 people and expects 1980 sales of $3.5 million. Ozuna assembles the instrument panels that monitor nuclear plants, oil drilling rigs and other high-technology hardware. Firms working the Alaskan oil pipeline use his products. With their dazzling displays of dials and switches, the panels look like something...