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Dumping the Sick. At New Yorks Coney Island Hospital recently, a combination of delayed treatment and the common practice of "dumping" emergency patients on other hospitals contributed to the deaths of two men. The emergency-room diagnosis for one was gastrointestinal hemorrhage and shock. Claiming a lack of beds, the hospital ordered the patient transferred to a larger institution. Still waiting for transfer three hours later, the man died. An other patient died after waiting six hours to be dumped. Subsequently, New York State's Investigation Commission found that on one of the patients' entry cards, the word...
...seven years she remained in a warehouse, while dozens of propositions were put forth. Some New Yorkers wanted her at Coney Island. Others said on the Manhattan Bridge. New York Life eventually decided to give her to New York University. But it was the middle of the Depression-and the cost of a proper tower was prohibitive. At last the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art offered her a place of honor in his main hall. And there she has remained ever since...
Self-Help. In scores of cities, Negro self-help projects are under way. "Operation Bootstrap" in Watts, launched with a $1,000 loan and Negro-run, has placed 175 graduates in skilled jobs in the past six months. In Indianapolis, Schoolteacher Mattie Rice Coney organized 500 block clubs to clean up the ghetto, figures that her group has swept up 42,000 tons of trash in the last year. "Slums are made by people," she says, "not by plaster or bricks. Civic rebuilding begins with people who care about themselves...
Such projects generate an immense -and justified-pride. "We've been treated unfairly," says Indianapolis' Mattie Coney, "but fairness isn't the argument. Black people are easily identified-they just plain have to be better behaved or they give the prejudiced white man a weapon." In a letter made public last
Adopt for the moment the macro, that is to say, comprehensive point of view. No longer forced to rummage about for detail, be free to indulge in geographic and historic analogy. Consider Nathan's Famous. Not Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, hot-dog server to the world, but Nathan's Famous of Oceanside. Situated on the broad Long Island plane, accessible by car from all directions, Nathan's of Oceanside is what Harvard Square would be if city planners took teen-agers to heart and let traffic control go hang. Conceive a commodious space, roofed with wood, full...