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...race as an issue in the charter fight. Rizzo is concentrating his campaign on the working-class sections that have solidly supported him in the past. At Palumbo's Cafe in South Philadelphia, he told a group of a hundred or so supporters: "In Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Newark, there is no limit on mayors' terms. That's the American way. I'm a full-time mayor. I don't play tennis. I don't jog. My whole life is dedicated to this city...
Presumably the Soviets, by going easy on Crawford and allowing him to leave the country immediately, have paved the way for a possible prisoner swap involving two Soviet U.N. employees who will go on trial in Newark on espionage charges Sept. 27. The Soviets were picked up just three weeks before Crawford's arrest...
...fines and providing counsel. Papers across the country rallied around, insisting that if reporters were forced to reveal their sources, news gathering would be impaired. Meanwhile, Farber's lawyers tried manifold appeals to New Jersey courts, to the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally to a federal court in Newark, N.J., seeking a writ of habeas corpus (for unlawful imprisonment) to get Farber released...
Filmed entire in the slums of New York City and Newark, the project took some nine months and posed hazards for Producer-Director Helen Whitney, whose voice can be frequently heard questioning the show's young subjects. Her purse was stolen during one interview, and she was slammed against the hood of a car during a street altercation. The menace is often palpable. When Whitney asks a group of young men where they draw the line at violence, one replies heatedly: "Ain't no limit. If I gotta kill you to get what I want...
...immediacy. The footage seems to have been shot in the fly-on-the-wall manner of Film Maker Frederick Wiseman, but the editing is both jumpier and crisper than in Wiseman's works. In one se quence, the camera pans up an icicle-festooned stairwell inside a Newark tenement, enters an apartment squalid beyond words and comes to rest on an infant cooing over its bottle. No one states the obvious: that child will never have a chance. The faces of parents appear, studies in anger and bewilderment. Visibly, they are passing on pain to children doomed to repeat...