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...city, leaving behind a growing population of low-income Negro families. And the problem of balancing the population becomes more and more difficult because the Negroes are blocked from moving to the suburbs by a growing collar of whites-only communities that Democratic Mayor Richardson P. Dilworth, 59, calls a "white noose...
...Toll. Slim, outspoken* Dick Dilworth, combat veteran of both world wars, Yaleman and longtime political partner of his City Hall predecessor, Joe Clark (who is now a U.S. Senator), has civic, religious and political organizations, as well as an officeful of assistants, looking for the answers to the problem. "The white noose," says Housing Coordinator William Rafsky, "is disadvantageous to everyone. Apart from being morally wrong, segregation takes a tremendous economic toll...
...these home truths from abroad did not surprise Philadelphians, it was because the story carried the byline: "Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia." On a month's vacation in Europe that ended last week, Democrat Dilworth wrote a series of mayor's-eye-view stories for the Inquirer that found a moral for the home folks almost every place he visited. Describing the rebuilt sections of West Berlin, for example, Yaleman Dilworth said they offer "conclusive proof of how essential it is to the health and well-being of a large city to have ample, well-planned open space...
...Mayor Dilworth even kept an eye peeled for traffic problems, reported pointedly from London that drivers move and stop "promptly on signal, automobiles stay in their proper lanes, and you see no weaving or cutting in or out." Concluded His Honor: "It is just another example of what decent observance of the law, and of regard for one another, can accomplish...
...Ranting & Roaring." Joe Clark, 55, is an all-out, unabashed liberal. "A liberal," he once wrote, "is one who believes in utilizing the full force of government for the advancement of social, political and economic justice at the municipal, state, national and international levels." With Richardson Dilworth. who succeeded him as mayor, and Jim Finnegan. now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. Clark led the revolt that turned Philadelphia from a Republican stronghold into a Democratic bastion...