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...architect's drafting boards, he made a drawing of the box, enlarged the dimensions to 2 ft. by 3 ft. by 2 ft., took it into the Industrial Welding Co. in Newark, whose sign "You specify it; we fabricate it" he had seen while driving to and from his home in South Orange, N.J. "We were a little bit surprised at first," says William Schmidt, the welding company's president. "I wondered, is this guy a kook...
History has little more than that to say of Nat Turner's revolt. But readers will not fail to recognize that the shadow of Nat Turner darkened the streets of Newark and Detroit in the summer of 1967-and hovers still. This novel goes beyond a mere retelling of history to show how the fettered human spirit can splinter into murderous rage when it is goaded beyond endurance...
Resistance to Change. What its defenders did their best to ignore was the National Guard's sorry performance during the summer riots in Newark and Detroit. In both cities, several deaths were attributed to unnecessary gunfire from Guardsmen. The regular Army generals who commanded the Michigan contingent reported that that state's Guardsmen were trigger-happy, scary and undisciplined. In the wake of the Detroit upheaval, the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders also found that Negro representation in the Army Guard is minuscule (1.15% nationwide v. 10.6% in the Army in Viet Nam), officer quality...
...state and even from unit to unit. Some Guard units this summer performed more than creditably in the troublesome task of quelling rioters, and 1,300 Texas Guardsmen worked night and day last week in protecting the populace against the ravages of Hurricane Beulah. Yet its overall performance in Newark and Detroit poses timely questions about its fundamental purpose that no amount of speechmaking can hide...
Only a few days after the nation's life insurance industry pledged $1 billion for investment in the ghettos, the Prudential Insurance Co. announced that ground will be broken in riot-scarred Newark next month for the first of the industry-sponsored projects. The $4,500,000 cooperative will house 1,000 people and be completed within a year, compared with at least 21 years for most projects financed by the Federal Government. "For nearly a generation," said Paul Ylvisaker, New Jersey's commissioner of community affairs, "the flow of private mortgage money into the cities has dried...