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...Boston," he continues, "you see Irish power. In Newark, you see Italian power. Cities are a series of ethnic powers. I see the black community fitting into that equation." Nor does he believe it will take blacks very long to build up ethnic power though they have been in North America for over three centuries. "In one way, this is the first black generation in America. Or, I mean, it is the first black generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation in which black awareness and pride could develop because...
Born. To Dionne Warwick, 25, singer with honey deep down in her Soul (Alfie; Promises, Promises); and Bill Elliott, 31, aspiring movie actor (Uptight, On a Clear Day): their first child, a boy; in Newark...
...travelers in a hurry, Eastern Air Lines' hourly "air shuttle" has been a boon from its inception eight years ago. The service, which links New York-Newark with both Washington and Boston, guarantees passengers a seat even if they show up at the last minute. When passengers fill one of the jet planes to capacity, Eastern simply rolls out a second-section backup craft-usually a propjet Electra-to handle any overflow. The shuttle drew 3,200,000 passengers in 1968. But Eastern last week advised the Federal Aviation Administration that "the life of this service...
...pressing for changes in FAA restrictions on airport traffic scheduled to go into effect in April. Aimed at relieving air congestion in the Chicago-New York-Washington "Golden Triangle," the restrictions affect operations at five airports -New York's John F. Kennedy and La Guardia, Newark, Washington's National and Chicago's O'Hare. Eastern objects to an FAA proposal that would rigidly limit takeoffs and landings by all commercial and private planes to 60 an hour at Newark and La Guardia. That would restrict its ability to add extra sections to its shuttle flights...
...books is awaited with the eagerness that attends Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (TIME, May 17), which comes on the scene next month after the greatest prepublication fanfare since Death of a President. The plot tells the sexual misadventures of Alex Portnoy from priapic adolescence in Newark to insatiable maturity in New York City government. Excerpts have appeared in the New American Review and Partisan Review as well as in Esquire, and the unpublished book has already earned over half a million dollars. Its real value, though, lies in Roth's revelation of a brilliant urban...