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...national malaise poses a civic puzzle: Are Americans obliged to vote, even for candidates they dislike? Purists have sometimes overstated a yes answer. Dictatorships often force people to vote for handpicked candidates and then proudly proclaim that participation hit 95% or more. By contrast, the U.S. right to vote carries with it a right not to vote, to register a negative protest, and most Americans would balk at hav ing it any other way. Even so, they sometimes forget that people the world over have often died fighting for even the crudest kind of franchise. Well aware of that struggle...
There is little overt civic pride. Even Big Business is either too big, fragmented or uninterested to offer the kind of leadership it exerts in cities like Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Extraordinarily kind on occasion, New Yorkers in the mass can be the rudest, surliest, nastiest citizens of America and, with the possible exception of Paris, the world...
...rally in Trenton was at the Civic Center, a dirty red brick building from around 1890 that now stands in front of a great expanse of bull-dozed wasteland covered with crab-grass and bits of broken pavement. The auditorium had about 3000 people in it when Wallace arrived, and the seats were arranged in a square with no one in the middle and no one behind the speaker's platform. This arrangement is designed to cut down on the risk of assassination, and also to reduce the contact between Wallace's supporters and the hecklers, who had turned...
...hecklers were mostly black kids from the high school which was next door to the Civic Center, and as Wallace began to speak, they started to chant, "Wallace is a pig! Say it now!" They swayed and clapped rhythmically to the chant, and a few boys came to the back and danced to the beat of the chanting. From the other end of the hall, Wallace threatened the hecklers. "You'd better have your day now, because after November 5 you're through in this country." From both sides, the whites howled their disapproval, and shook their fists...
Pittsburgh's four-year-old Business & Job Development Corp., owned and run by Negroes, has won enough financial support from civic leaders to start an ambitious industrial park in the Home-wood-Brushton ghetto. Last month the nonprofit group broke ground for a $1,100,000 plant that Westinghouse Electric will lease. Westinghouse will install Negro managers, hire about 75 ghetto residents. The development corporation plans a second industrial park, two shopping centers and a ghetto bank...