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...banty rooster, Quadros flew at the graft-feathered machine of São Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros. Quadros raced around the city listening to citizens' protests and holding rallies, a rumpled, stubble-chinned reformer who sucked oranges on the platform and waved a caged rat...
This newspaper ad, printed a month ago in the New York World-Telegram and Sun, and paid for out of the pockets of a Harlem school staff, touched it off. The teachers begged for a cleanup of their rat-and cockroach-infested building, protesting against "sagging walls, unsanitary toilets, leaking roof, refrigerator temperatures in the winter and oven-like sweltering during spring." By last week that appeared to be a rough description of many New York City schools, and four sets of investigators were looking into far-reaching corruption in the most colossal, colossally troubled school system in the nation...
Since this is an election year in New York (see THE NATION), the teachers got fast action. Mayor Wagner personally visited the school and got more publicity than he bargained for when a rat scurried across his path in the auditorium. Pictured in the papers, this scene encouraged a rash of complaints...
...Looking into 52,000 slum buildings, the city found 9,000 to be "rat-infested," reported that 7,900 were later "cleaned up," which leaves only...
Nights, the two men lie in rat-infested village huts, hating each other. Days, they struggle on in a chorus of mutual complaint. Without quite meaning to, McNair takes over the physical and mental leadership. Mukasa regresses into a childish envy. He steals McNair's fountain pen, notebook and aspirin, or perversely argues that Africans are obviously "inferior" to Europeans. McNair is at last goaded into shouting at Mukasa, "You god-damned black monkey...