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However, self-help programs, such as the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) in Roxbury, may improve the economic lotof many in this area...
...middle of the block stands Watts Happening, the coffee house started by some members of the community after the riots. In an area studded by Teen Posts, offices of OEO and OIC and Headstart, it is one of the few establishments that the residents can call their own: they own it, they run it, and they decide what happens in it. It is here, accompanied by Afro-Cuban jazz made by local musicians, that the "grassroots" voices can be heard. Tortured images of Negro life by local artists cover the walls. African sculpture stands in the corners. Just inside...
...Lustron has got no steel to build its houses. But the Department of Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation has approved an allocation of 58,000 tons of steel to builders of prefab housing, the bulk of it to Lustron. Once before, OIC turned down allocations for steel prefabs, because they require six times as much steel as conventional houses. It reconsidered when RFC and other government agencies intervened. Strandlund and his associates are now sure the steel will come through. As one Lustron executive put it: "Our relations with the Government have always been very healthful...
Last summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...
...million, six-year program for OIC was proposed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, one of the few Republicans who had fought the curtailment. Recently returned from a tour of 22 European nations, he told the committee: "We are filling their stomachs while the Communists are filling their minds...