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...million new housing units must be constructed by 1960 if the United States is to solve its housing problem," Jesse Epstein, former west coast director for the Public Housing Administration, said last night in Emerson Hall at the Graduate Forum's "New Horizons in Housing...
...platform with Epstein were Walter Firey, associate professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, and John R. Badgley 3G, a student in Architecture. The trio viewed the housing problem from their respective fields...
...housing problem has been creeping up on the country ever since 1929, Epstein stated. Although some housing legislation passed as early as 1935, it was shaped mainly to provide employment. "It was not until 1942 that legislation for housing's sake alone was passed." Epstein added that "the problem has attained such epidemic proportions that we are not completely certain housing needs can ever be filled...
...Durban last week, white South Africans were privileged to view one of the ugliest representations of man man ever wrought-Sculptor Jacob Epstein's primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big-fisted Sculptor Epstein in London: "The Adam was intended to represent the beginnings of all men . . . Under such Nazi principles of racial selectivity the subject of the statue himself would not be allowed to have a look...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone...