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...community is worse off than ever. Unemployment still runs close to 30% ; many residents are out of work because none of the chain stores destroyed last year have been rebuilt; insurance rates for some Watts businesses have quintupled. As evidence of the risk, Sol Goldman, one merchant who did rebuild his burned-out clothing store, saw it ransacked again last week. With 1,000 newcomers a week arriving in Los Angeles, Mayor Yorty complained, "The city just doesn't have the financial resources to provide the number of jobs necessary. This must be done on a state and federal...
...this age of William James Hall and Holyoke Center, an Adams House group the University to rebuild the clock tower of Memorial Hall...
...when Father William Wendt, a onetime fighter pilot, took over as rector, the area was 90% Negro and had the highest crime rate in the city; most of St. Stephen's old parishioners had drifted away. Persuading his remaining white communicants to stay and help him rebuild, Wendt junked the traditional parish societies-bridge clubs, ladies' guilds and the like-and set up new ones aimed at neighborhood needs...
There have also been some resounding failures. Overoptimistic local officials have found it too easy to wheedle funds from Washington. One of the worst-both big and little-is McKees Rocks, Pa. (pop. 13,000), a suburb bordering Pittsburgh. In 1957 county authorities decided to rebuild the town's crumbling commercial district; U.S. officials agreed to foot $2.3 million of the bill, and the destruction was done. The 24-acre site would have been ideal for industry, which could afford it, but McKees Rocks officials insisted that it be developed for commercial use only. Last week, eight years later...
...HHFA Director, Weaver followed an essentially inner-city-directed policy rather than attempting to deal with the metropolis as an entity. That approach has attracted criticism. Argues Harvard Business School Economist Raymond Vernon: "To talk about rebuild ing central cities for re-use by people there now is a good political move and a bad social one. Our Eastern cities were built around 1800. What a remarkable coincidence it would be if the density established for those patterns of life happened to be right for 1965!" To such barbs, Weaver retorts frostily: "I'm all for letting people...