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...special assistants, Houston Post science editor Blair Justice, is also on a Justice Department grant to study attitudes of Houston Negroes for possible comparison with those of Negroes in cities which have had riots. Following the advice of his assistants, Mayor Welch authorized programs to upgrade the poorest of Houston's Negro neighborhoods, and to improve police-Negro relations...
...from Detroit last week could best be described as two-tone. The darker hue was painted by General Motors: the world's largest automaker reported that first-quarter sales were off 15% from last year to $4.85 billion. Earnings as a result slipped 34.5% to $389.6 million, the poorest first-quarter profit for G.M. in five years. Balancing all that, however, were brighter prospects for the auto industry as a whole. Braced by an unexpectedly strong upturn in sales during April, auto companies have revised their production schedules for the second quarter. Altogether, 2,155,000 cars will...
LAREDO, TEXAS--This city of 65,000 which languishes on the banks of the Grande is, by federal statistics, the nation's poorest metropolitan area. Unemployment hovers around ten per cent, the median annual family income is less than $3,000 and, in some neighborhoods, is below $1,500. About a fifth of the city has new sewer service and more than half of the streets are unpaved. As many as 8,000 of Laredo's people migrate annually to do farm work. Illiteracy plagues one-sixth of the populace...
...program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency to the job. He is Jagjivan Ram, 58, the leader of India's 65 million "untouch ables," who, as the country's poorest caste, have been hit hardest by the food shortages. Ram's first project: to bore deep wells in such drought-stricken areas as his home state of Bihar to provide needed water for crop irrigation. He faces a terrifying task: keeping India's 500 million people from slipping into starvation...
...poorest of Sinclair Lewis' Midwestern novels, written in the late 1920s. Its businessman anti-hero is Lowell Schmaltz, who lives in Zenith, admires George Babbitt, and delivers endless monologues on Calvin Coolidge, cafeterias, motor trips, radio, etc. Coolidge sample: "Maybe he isn't what my daughter would call so 'Ritzy' ... he may not shoot off a lot of fireworks, but you know what he is? He's SAFE...