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...routine affronts that face a Negro growing up in the U.S. His father, Clarence L. Smith, is now a $10,900-a-year civilian analyst of military penal procedures at the Pentagon. His mother, Artenia Gibson Smith, of American Indian and Negro descent, has been a teacher and counselor in Washington's public schools for the past 33 years. The Smiths took pains to insulate their only child from the abrasions of ghetto life...
...well at Georgetown, though not brilliantly, earning A's in his history major, B's and C's in most of his other subjects. One summer, when he was not cantering through the park with Peggy and Navajo, he worked as a counselor in a Southwest Washington playground, supervising Negro children. "And that's the kind of thing," says Principal Orr, "that Guy wants to do when he gets out of the service-something that involves him with people...
...religious sects-notably the Friends, Mennonites or Church of the Brethren-that are totally opposed to war. However, recent Supreme Court rulings have opened the door to a broader interpretation of religious training and belief. "You can be a conscientious objector today," claims Frank Speltz, 25, a Washington antidraft counselor, "with little semblance of religious training...
...setting and atmosphere. His Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera, and his neighborhood is a horrifyingly typical New York slum street. His supporting cast, notably Sorrell Booke as the exasperated principal and Florence Stanley as a guidance counselor in love with instant evaluation, is ideal. So is Fred Karlin's musical score, in its ironic blending of baroque blandness and jungle throb...
Contrary to the misleading title of this book, not anyone can make a million. But almost everyone would like to try. For that reason, there is usually a market for get-rich-quick books. Shulman is neither a professional writer nor an investment counselor; he is the ex-coroner of Toronto, whose spare-time market speculations made him a millionaire. He wrote his book in two weeks, and in five months it has sold 108,000 copies. As a how-to-do-it handbook, it forwards the questionable thesis that what has worked for him can work for anybody...