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That the building exists at all is no less a miracle than Watts's riotless history in the two intervening years. Perhaps even more of a miracle is Dr. Elsie Giorgi, the dark-haired, 56-year-old dynamo who conceived the center and fought it through-despite threats of violence-to fruition...
Bronx to Park Avenue. The tenth child of an Italian immigrant family in The Bronx, N.Y., Dr. Giorgi (pronounced Georgy) decided in grammar school that she wanted to become a doctor. Penniless when she finished pre-med courses at New York City's Hunter College in the depths of the Depression, she toiled twelve years as a white-collar worker in a trucking company, saving $12,000 while helping the firm increase sixfold in size. Then, after four years at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she spent ten years as intern, resident and ultimately chief...
...wasn't comfortable with it," she says. "Eighty-five percent of the people had nothing wrong with them physically. They were simply troubled." In 1961 Dr. Giorgi moved to Los Angeles for a year's residency in psychiatry at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in turn taking over the center's clinic and establishing its comprehensive home-care program-and a movie-star-studded practice of her own. In July 1965, she volunteered to examine Watts children who were beginning the Office of Economic Opportunity's Head Start program, and was appalled...
...judge interrupted: "When Police Chief Di Giorgi ordered you to suspend work on the road, why did you make no answer?" "If someone ordered me to kill you, Mr. President,'' Dolci replied softly, "I would not obey. To fill up the holes in a road in Partinico is a good, useful, almost indispensable act. That is why I didn't stop...
Some exceptions: Giorgi Manuilov's able Still Life of a guitar, lamp, vase and apples. Two noteworthy American Indian mural paintings designed inside semicircle with legs at one end, symbolized heads at the other. Three drypoint etchings by John Taylor Arms, done with the smallest etching needle made...