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...Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, and TIME'S Jerrold Schecter?hardly a crowd designed for secrecy. Nobody bought Califano's white lie that he had been talking to his wife, and when he got off the phone, one guest shouted: "He's just been offered the regional HUD job in Mississippi!" By next morning, the word was all over official Washington that Califano was a candidate for Secretary of Commerce, HEW or Housing and Urban Development...
Died. James Wong Howe, 76, Oscar-winning cinematographer (for The Rose Tattoo, 1955, and Hud, 1963); after a long illness; in Hollywood. Born in China and named Wong Tung Jim, the diminutive (5 ft.) Howe was so harassed by his Pasco, Wash., schoolmates that he became a professional prizefighter. Seeing a Mack Sennett comedy being filmed in the streets, he asked for a job as cameraman but was rejected as too small for heavy equipment; he eventually caught on as assistant to Cecil B. De-Mille. Noted for his constant efforts to achieve realism, Howe once filmed John Garfield...
Some interesting and normally intelligent actors are involved in this nonsense. Robert Shaw is the master crook, and Martin Ritt, better known as a director (Hud, Sounder, Conrack), plays the Swiss cop who is his nemesis. Jon Voight plays Ritt's assistant - and unwitting tool - while Jacqueline Bisset does time as lover to both Shaw and Voight. Their skills are all frittered aimlessly away in a movie that offers slowness of pace as an earnest of artistic integrity. The only emotion that the audience is likely to work up watching this unconscionable bore is an irresistible desire...
...Supreme Court pointed out, HUD does have the power right now to support low-cost housing in the suburbs that could attract inner-city minority groups. Under a provision, known as Section 8, of the 1974 housing law, HUD subsidizes the rent paid by low-income families who live in new, renovated or existing housing. But in this fiscal year, only a small portion of the 325,000 dwelling units under the program are housing families from minority groups in predominantly white areas...
...Even if HUD increases its efforts-as it shows solid signs of doing-the department could still run up against the legal defenses of recalcitrant suburbs, which could plead that the proposed housing would violate their zoning. HUD has had trouble enough accomplishing a simpler task: integrating low-income minorities into middle-class white neighborhoods within a city's boundaries. During the early '70s, for example, middle-class whites in the Forest Hills section of New York City bitterly fought a proposed housing project. They succeeded in reducing its size from about 830 apartments to 430 and increasing...