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...Grand Rapids, Mich., 56-year-old Earl Dove battened down his home, and started to move his family into the basement; the next thing he remembers is finding himself on a heap of splintered lumber, 50 ft. from the house. In Goldwater, Mich., a four-inch piece of straw flew like a steel-tipped arrow and imbedded itself in a woman's neck. In Strongsville, Ohio, near Cleveland, a baby was sucked out of a house and hurled to its death-still in its bassinet. The same vacuum pressure pulled the wedding ring from the finger of the baby...
...eleven-year-old delinquent boy at the Erie County Detention Home in Buffalo. Another young lawbreaker has produced a modern equivalent of Jesus' parable about the one sheep out of 100 that went astray; in his version a used-car-lot owner goes looking for the "heap" that someone "snitched...
...sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise primitive in a modern age; they tend to be corrosively colored, rank as a humus heap, and scornful of straight lines (see opposite page...
...Dung Heap. Negro teen-agers live in a world apart. "Culturally deprived, culturally deprived! That's all I hear," says Willie Armstead, 16, an A student at David Starr Jordan High School in the black ghetto of Los Angeles. "It's not so much that I mind being in an all-Negro school. What I care about is not being able to get together with white kids, or just kids with other backgrounds, and discussing ideas." Leslie Harris, 16, a talented musician and a student at Chicago's Wendell Phillips High School, has picketed the Chicago board...
...taught, and most educators resist changing the curriculums to aid these children." Kenneth B. Clark, New York psychologist and civil rights leader, holds that "the Negro kid who drops out of school is probably doing so to protect himself from a system designed to throw him on the dung heap of our society...