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Says the preface to Blueprint for Health, with a nod to rundown slum areas: "This community has in it the seeds of contagion, contamination, human misery and criminal neglect . . . But it also has in it sources of power great enough to protect us all against the consequences of mass-living...
...attacked by a group of Negroes. At this point "The Well's" tempo speeds up with flash shots of excited crowds in different parts of the city. It isn't long before gangs of teenagers start roaming the streets and smashing windows in the colored section. As the contagion spreads, the older folks join in. Negroes are dragged from their cars and worked over, and in retaliation the Negro gangs fire a warehouse. These are brutal scenes; it's hard to believe that the participants are human beings, but the same crazed mobs have been seen in St. Louis...
...tighter money" policy. The Federal Reserve Board, with its Regulation X, had sought to trim 1951's new housing starts to 800,000, but builders cried that they might well fall below 700,000, and predicted imminent unemployment in the building trades. Even steelmen caught the contagion, began worrying about a possible glut of steel. Said U.S. Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless: "That period may be nearer than most people think...
...girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent to a laundry, where they infected three more people. By this week the contagion had spread to 35 people ; nine had died...
Students have bicycles at Harvard in order to get to classes from distant river dormitories with maximum speed. The effectiveness of this mode of transportation depends heavily on using Quincy Street northbound. Else Emerson, Sever, Robinson, and Fogg become as isolated as a contagion ward. To cycle north on Prescott Street and then head south again to get to the right points on Quincy would indeed be an unlikely maneuver...