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...Manhattan apartment dweller, Shnayerson found that his car and its insurance were getting too expensive to justify the trouble of hunting down parking places. "I took direct action," he says. "I drove the bloody thing to the Sanitation Department instead of leaving it on the street-one of maybe five or six citizens who made the effort that year. And on delivering the car, which was still in good running shape, I was met by disbelieving Sanitation men who tried to persuade me either to keep it, sell it, or give it to them. Then they saw I was serious...
...South Carolina cotton picker as a child, Harlem slum dweller as a teenager, Singer Kitt listened with growing impatience to the women's pernickety reports about the causes of crime in the streets. Finally she spoke up-with passion, if not with convincing logic...
...other difficulty, says Matthew Robinson, a Negro and producer-host of Opportunity Line on Philadelphia's WCAU-TV, is to break through the ghetto dweller's "apprehension or reticence" about visiting an employment office. Even so, about half of the viewers who phone WCAU-TV for information on Saturday go to the employment office the next week. And why not? About half of them get work, and many others wind up in training programs or counseling that eventually makes them employable...
Harvard basketball tumbled into ignominy last night at the IAB. Following weekend losses to Penn and Princeton the listless, disorganized Crimson five suffered the ultimate Ivy League disgrace--a 65-60 loss to perennial cellar-dweller Dartmouth...
Shakers v. Smoothers. Clinton Rossiter categorizes Presidents as either earthshakers or earth-smoothers. Johnson's emphasis on consensus and conciliation, his efforts to bring businessman and laborer, black and white, city dweller and dirt farmer into his big tent, all seem to mark him as a smoother...