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Organized two years ago by New York City's Urban League, the program operates on the premise that the dropout hustling a living on the streets has a native savvy that can be channeled into the classroom. In the past year, eleven major U.S. corporations, including Time Inc., have anted up $30,000 to $50,000 as sponsors. The money pays for the leasing and remodeling of a ramshackle storefront, teachers' salaries, books, and the expenses of street workers, who roam the ghetto, "rapping" (talking) with dropouts and actively recruiting them for the academies. In turn, the corporation...
...street workers, often storefront graduates themselves, make the initial contact with a promising dropout. Upon entering the academy, a youngster takes a bedrock curriculum of reading, English grammar and arithmetic. Once attending regularly, he moves on to a storefront Academy of Transition, where the spectrum of courses is broader and the teachers-often college graduates disillusioned with the public schools-attempt to stimulate his interest in further learning...
...must be destroyed," and White's answering, "Yes, but what do you really mean?" Kill Whitey? Or (smiling whitely) merely destruction of the social order? And what then? Black points out with sour pleasure that his "revolution" has 22 million members and that there are few recruiting or dropout problems. White says yes, but so long as blackness and separatism are requirements, the membership can do no more than cause disruption, because it can never grow large enough to complete a revolution ... It is a weird sort of coffee-housing, especially if Black and White happen to be friends...
...bedded down in churches and private homes, get free medical attention at Cambridgeport Clinic and legal aid from volunteer lawyers. To keep the hippies busy, Parks Commissioner John Warner has supplied tools to clear 25 debris-cluttered city lots. Self-styled Hippie Agronomist John MacConnell, 30, a Syracuse University dropout, plans to plant corn in the lots because he thinks that "everyone should have a chance to eat sweet corn out of a garden...
...girl, Doris Mae Winter, is a social dropout too ("her formal education had come to an end when she slugged a history teacher for giving her a failing mark") and is frigid to boot. Romance, naturally, blossoms. She becomes Leonard's partner in a Bonnie sexual union-successful for him, enjoyable for her-before he comes to his Clyde...