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When Municipal Judge William S. Mathews sentenced a dozen Negro violators to a year in jail and a $500 fine each, rioting erupted in Cincinnati's workhouse, a fetid bastille built over a century ago to house Civil War prisoners. Inmates, both black and white, began hurling rotten bricks and the contents of their toilet pails (the workhouse has no lavatories) at the prison guards...
Summer is the season of rioting, when the fetid heat of the slums and the sloughs of despair combine to send minorities into the streets. So far this summer, nothing has happened on the order of the huge and destructive Harlem and Watts riots, but that is little cause for congratulations or complacency. Each week for most of the summer, the nation has been plagued by a dizzying number of simmering racial disturbances, any one of which might explode into massive proportions. Last week was one of particularly widespread unrest...
...such a proclivity for organizing is alien to impoverished Latin Americans--including those living in the fetid, disease-ridden slums that ring the major cities in Venezuela. These people have grown up under the patron system, dictatorships, and the Catholic Church and have always looked to someone higher up to get things done. By habit and disposition they are simply unable to organize projects to help themselves...
Problems & Solutions. Tourism pumps $120 million a year into Puerto Rico's economy and is the fourth-ranking industry. Yet the luxury hotels on San Juan's beach front, towering not far from the fetid slum of La Perla, symbolize the island's problems. With 2,600,000 inhabitants (686 persons per sq. mi.), Puerto Rico is one of the world's most densely populated countries. Merely to keep up with the increase in population will require a giant jump in job openings-some 200,000 more in ten years-and Governor Sanchez has made employment...
...first scene, Matt Stanton, the hero, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter, seven weeks of steady rain. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were unhousebroken animals. Beslimed in his own filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from...