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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puerto Rican) is a $20 million slum with a third of its families on relief. At Fort Greene some residents prefer to use the stairs rather than face the "stench of stale urine that pervades the elevators." "Nowhere this side of Moscow," writes Salisbury, "are you likely to find public housing so closely duplicating the squalor it was designed to supplant." A heavy portion of the 300,000 Puerto Ricans and many of the 300,000 Negroes who have arrived in the city in the past seven years have settled in such projects and in older tenement slums...
...correspondents covering the Indonesian civil war, the main problem has been to find the war. With no defined front line in vast Sumatra-more than twice the size of Korea-most of the skirmishes between the rebels and President Sukarno's government have been as haphazard as blind man's buff...
Hunting for the war, newsmen dashed over the jungled distances in sometimes-scheduled airliners, river boats, buses and ancient taxis. When they did find something to write about, they had the problem of getting it to Singapore. The Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech finally had to send one dispatch by ship, a two-day trip. Luckier newsmen used the rebels' clandestine radio transmitter in Padang, sent out hand-tapped signals that were monitored by the news agencies in Singapore, 300 miles away...
When another hardy group of correspondents rushed to find out how U.S. Caltex employees were faring in Rumbai, a town in contested Central Sumatra, they found a scene that made a novel page in war correspondence. Reported the New York Times's Bernard Kalb: U.S. kids were playing tag on a paved street, an American woman dived into a glittering pool, and "a couple of American men, sipping ice cream sodas to the tune of jukebox music, were chatting about what kind of season the Yankees would have...
...hard man to find. But this-if you'll forgive the expression-is Easter Week, and he just might be home...