Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
...evidence from several patients. One boy from a Wilson's disease family was diagnosed as having the defect when he was only ten months old. He has been treated for eight years and is still well; his older sister, whose case was not diagnosed in time, became severely ill by age twelve...
...problem" re. the letter of 2/23/63. J.G.'s letter is insistently addressed to the "white liberals" only. They are, supposedly, a group apart, easily recognizeable by their blindness to their own prejudices. J.G., implicitly, is not a white liberal, but he assures us that he bears them no personal ill-will, since he, too, has "Liberal friends." (To avoid any further identity confusions I'd better say here that I am a "white," of "Jewish" background, and a radical.) J.G. offers the white liberal and the country one simple solution to dissolve the "race barrier"--to treat "the individual...