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Those who stay behind are the truly dispossessed, the old, the ill and, most deleteriously, the alienated young who, in the phrase of Newark Detective Charles Meek, himself a Negro, "dance their hips off, turn on to booze, narcotics, airplane glue, girls." To them, a steady job, in the slang of the ghetto, is "slave," and no amount of youth-corps training at "skills centers" can help them. Many of the jobs open to these youths cannot match either the income or the romance of the traditional ghetto occupation: petty crime...
Pollard's plight is common enough from Harlem to Newark. But to find poverty in Greenport, L.I., is something else again. As Poet William Cullen Bryant wrote in the 1870s of the tidy, tree-shaded town with its white clapboard houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida...
...takes the form of a series of monologues ranted by a patient at his psychoanalyst. The patient is a 34-year-old bachelor named Alexander Portnoy, high-school honor student from Newark, first in his law-school class, and now assistant human-rights commissioner in New York City. At first glance, the chronicle of Portnoy's pain, rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent...
Approximately 250 poor people will leave this morning by bus from the Blue Hill Christian Center bound for Providence, the group will hold rallies in New York, Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore before arriving in Washington...
...refrigeration nearly dissolved in smoke. Not far from Springfield Avenue, site of last sum mer's worst rioting, flames emptied a three-story tenement, then rapidly blew through the area. "Most of these houses are nothing more than reinforced card board," said one tenant. The worst fire in Newark's history razed 1½ blocks and left more than 500 residents with out shelter...