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Crime for Christmas. Despite such progress, the slums persist. As soon as a flophouse bed is vacated, it is immediately filled by one of the hordes of migrants who are once more moving north and west at the rate of thousands a day. In Charleston, Atlanta and other Southern cities, anonymous pamphlets urge Negroes to go north and live off fat charity provisions; their steady flow northward is creating an enormous and potentially explosive problem for the big cities. "What Chicago really needs," says a Chicago politician, "is a Point Four program in Mississippi." The Negro population of Chicago...
...vacant last month by the death of J. Spencer Love, Burlington Industries' candid new President Charles F. Myers, 50, made it plain that the era of one-man rule had ended for the world's largest textile empire (1961 sales: $866 million). Says Myers in a rich Charleston accent: "No one will take the load that Mr. Love took. Management from now on will be a team operation." Lured away from a banking career during a series of tennis games with Love 15 years ago. Myers started off at Burlington as a financial man, soon headed Burlington International...
...North Charleston...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, a chronic Kennedy critic, politely applauded his scholarly speech at Chapel Hill (TIME, Oct. 20), then yielded to the same anxiety that troubles Erwin Canham: "Mr. Kennedy's trouble lies in translating high-sounding words and resolute statements into the actions of the administration he heads. It is our well-justified fear that the President is lacking in that quality which enables a man to live up to his own words. For all the firmness, the total body of his decisions as President is not such as to inspire national confidence...
Critics of group instruction dismiss it as mere gimmickry that de-emphasizes discipline and overlooks outstanding individual talents. When Joan Geilfuss, a Pace student, divided her group classes in Charleston, S.C., into teams to liven things up, traditionalists spoke scornfully of her "piano parties." But Joan could scarcely have cared less. Last year not one of her 35 students dropped out, although the estimated dropout rate for children who take up piano playing in the U.S. is over 30% after the first year...