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Many proponents of open housing say that its goal is to break up the slums by dispersing Negroes more evenly throughout the population, but the low-income slum dweller is actually least likely to be affected. He is too often psychologically reluctant to forsake the emotional security of the ghetto and financially incapable of doing so. It is the educated Negro with a middle or upper income who is most eager-and able-to get out of the ghetto and explore the society around him. Actor-Comic Bill Cosby (costar of TV's / Spy) lives...
...agreed that the Negro could best achieve his social and economic goals by peaceable means. "Our power," declared King, "does not reside in Molotov cocktails, rifles, knives and bricks." And yet, as in Harlem in 1964 and in Watts last year, the hatred and frustration of the Negro slum dweller erupted in an insensate wave of violence that filled Chicago's near West Side streets with the wordless roar of the mob and the cries of victims wounded by the very weapons that King had deprecated...
...official Government standards, a single city dweller is poor if he earns less than $1,540 a year-a level that exceeds West Germany's average per capita income of $1,358, and seems opulent beside Spain's $342. To determine the precise borders of poverty, the U.S. reckons that a man could have three adequate meals a day for 700 if he bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum...
...medicine is now recognizing that the general practitioner fills a need that is not being met. He tends to serve in rural areas, and to be the mainstay of the poor and the slum dweller, who cannot afford the several specialists many families now have for their varied ills. Most of all, the family doctor, available in greater numbers, would help restore the oldtime warmth to the doctor-patient relationship...
...saying, 'You can't merge with nature.' You are a man. You want things that nature doesn't want. You would like to live forever, and nature will kill you. So you stand and you look at nature, framed out there on the horizon. You are an urban dweller who is trying to make contact with it, and in a very fundamental sense you can never really do so except on a level of profound melancholy...