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...violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that he would appoint a citizens committee to scrutinize police procedures, especially in the force's dealings with minorities. He also promised to use federal funds for additional swimming pools and playground facilities for the Negroes. And Daley ordered the immediate installation of sprinklers on hydrants - as New York City has done - so that they can legally cool kids and tempers on hot days in the slums...
This year 11 researchers, including Thomas and Plumer, will begin a project studying language in the schools. They will record children talking at a playground, children talking in small groups at school and teachers speaking in classrooms. They hope to know by the end of the year such things as whether children speak more fluently among their own peers or in a mixed group of Negro and white students or rich and poor students, and whether many teachers talk over the heads of their students or deny them opportunities to speak. Then, the group hopes, it will be able...
...designing Riis Plaza, architects for the New York City Housing Authority took a hard but human look at how playground-parks are used, tested their ideas by interviewing many of the project's 7,500 residents, largely Negroes and Puerto Ricans...
Progression of Delights. Unquestionably, the plaza's most immediate triumph is its playground. Architect Simon Breines, who grew up playing stickball on the streets of Brooklyn, provided Riis Plaza children with a stupendous place to play. With Landscape Architect Paul Friedberg, he designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
...straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic-structure boys use the industrial-design field, work first with graph paper or blueprints, then hand the results over to machine shops for manufacture...