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...Harder They Come. Starring Jimmy Cliff. The movie-is already something of a cult phenomenon. And why shouldn't it be? It's got everything: Set in a Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up all preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition...
Gangs are an old, established ghetto institution in Philadelphia; indeed some of them claim an identity that goes back 40 years, and some have been at war with the same opponent for as long as 30 years. But the advent of guns in large quantities in the late '60s changed the character of corner warfare and sent the hazards and the casualties zooming. Oddly enough, the guns have also served to reduce the scale of the actual combat, and all out melees between two gangs-West Side Story style-are now rare...
...Arcata Investment Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., seem to have been confused about the difference between an investment loan and a charitable donation. Arcata folded in 1972, after nearly half of the businesses it had funded-including such risky ventures as a posh restaurant in the East Palo Alto ghetto-closed down...
...mayors fear that Administration proposals will thin out the amount of money available by sharing it among smaller communities as well, many of them well-heeled suburbs. Still smarting from presidential cutbacks of existing programs, vetoes of new projects and the scuttling of programs like summer jobs for ghetto youngsters, the majority of the 320 mayors in attendance opposed the President's current plan. The conference then issued carefully worded counterproposals and passed a flurry of resolutions condemning further federal cutbacks. "Nixon has simply declared that the urban crisis is over," says John De Luca, an aide...
Jordan High School in Los Angeles is virtually a ghetto within a ghetto. Located on 103rd Street, it is bounded on one side by the Jordan Downs housing projects-two-story, ash gray buildings that contain 2,200 families, most of them on welfare. To the east is Alameda Street, the border of Watts, and there are railroad tracks on Alameda, so that when you cross them you know you are entering a different world. In back of Jordan and extending around it in an L-shape is the steel factory. It has been there for 20 years, the smoke...