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...Gary, Ind., Richard Hatcher literally had to break in on the job; his predecessor had not left the office key with him. Cleveland's Carl Stokes, after quelling a summer riot that took ten lives, had to face near rebellion in his own police department...
...mounted bold attacks on the enormous problems in his city. In the process, they have worked no miracles of unity. But they have succeeded in allaying the baser suspicions that clouded their campaigns. If blue-collar workers and diverse ethnic groups remain vaguely hostile to both mayors, Stokes and Hatcher have won impressive financial and moral support from the business community...
Relatively Closed Town. Hatcher, 35, the mayor of a smaller, seedier and far less diversified city (65% of the work force is employed by U.S. Steel), was able to tap foundations as weU as the Federal Government. When he threatened to re-evaluate U.S. Steel property, the results were immediate. The company started building middle-income houses, recently gave the city land for a park and donated some funds. Altogether, Gary has received more than $30 million in federal and private grants-more than in its entire 62-year history...
...Hatcher also directed the full weight of the police department against organized gambling and prostitution, which have been Gary's second-biggest industry for years. In the first half of 1968, police made 157 gambling arrests -more than five times the total for all of 1967. In one year, says Hatcher, the wide-open "sin town" of Gary has become "relatively closed...
...Look How Beautiful." Black Power advocates are even more militantly opposed. "Since the Black Power movement, the kids will talk a little if you date a fellow not of your race. You feel it a little bit," Vickie Hatcher says. So far, however, the Black Power exhortation to "look to your own first" is often ignored, even by Negroes who consider themselves confirmed Black Nationalists. Typical is Patrick Kelley, a 24-year-old Negro from Detroit, who calls himself "a living contradiction, thinking black but not being black. If I take a white girl into a black community, they will...