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...Established Pattern. The current mayor, A. Martin Katz, who ran as the reform candidate in 1963, pleads that "you can't change established patterns of ten, twelve, 30 or 40 years overnight." Gary's police make little effort to do so. Two Democratic Governors since 1961 have been just as reluctant to tamper with the powerful county machine that has guaranteed them the margin of victory against stiff Republican opposition...
...community spirit in the barrios (slums) and to stimulate the habit of self-help. What complicates their task is the numbing sense of futility bred by the sprawling poverty. In Caracas, for instance, innumerable tin and cardboard huts perch uncertainly on the scenic hillsides. They are put up overnight and house hundreds of thousands of peasants who flood the city seeking work and a better life. They find neither. Few make more than two hundred dollars a day, a third of which they spend on water, hosed into mud-caked ash cans from carrier trucks...
...last count, 24 countries had made requests for Peace Corps volunteers which could not be met. The most conservative assessors of the Peace Corps manpower situation estimate that, if the Peace Corps were made an alternative to the draft, the number of qualified applicants would more than double overnight...
...debut at Manhattan's Lord & Taylor of Jewelry Designer Paco Rabanne, at 32 the hit of Paris and overnight a whole industry in himself. Only last February, Paco presented a small experimental collection of disk dresses in his fifth-floor, walk-up Paris studio, and suddenly the rush...
...open reserve system will remove the two-hour time limit on reserve books used in the building. This will probably mean that reserve books may not be checked out overnight until 9 p.m., instead of 7:30 p.m., Miss Portitt said, and that checkers will be placed at the doors. Because of the demand for books for large enrollment courses, they will be kept on closed reserve...