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After a bitter twelve-day floor fight, the House last week produced a fair-housing bill that gave the Johnson Administration several slices less than half a loaf. The President wanted a law that would forbid racial discrimination in the sale or rental of all housing in the U.S. The House balked at such a sweeping measure. It voted to exempt individual owners who make no more than two sales a year and landlords who rent buildings with no more than four units and live on the premises. The bill thus covers 23 million of the nation...
Quotas or Ghettos. Part of the problem, of course, is to persuade Negroes not to inundate one area out of proportion to their 10% share of the population. In the New York suburb of Hempstead, front lawns were forested with FOR SALE signs after the first Negroes arrived, and there were fears that the neighborhood might turn into a suburban ghetto. But calmer residents decided to hang" on. Forming a community association, they saved their hardest sell for prospective white buyers to replace families that had left, urged Negroes to avoid a wholesale rush into the area. Given a choice...
...stumbling block to many Northerners was the bill's Title 4, which was originally intended to outlaw racial discrimination in the sale and rental of all housing. To gain support from hesitant Congressmen, Administration strategists agreed to amendments in the Judiciary Committee that would exclude owner-occupied dwellings of four units or fewer-more than 60% of the nation's residential housing. Though still not enough of a concession for many of the bill's opponents, it was far too much for militant civil rights supporters...
...backers next hired Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, who blasted away all of Borglum's details. Chipping away at Stone Mountain continued for three years, following essentially the grand conception of Borglum, who took himself off to Mount Rushmore. Even the sale of a million dollars worth of commemorative coins could not keep up with expenses. Not until 1958 did the state of Georgia undertake the financing of the memorial, and only two years ago was St. Louis-born Sculptor Walker Hancock taken on to finally finish the grandiose project. There is not likely to be any further delay. Today drillers...
...these belligerent young bards, 33-year-old Andrei Voznesensky, now rivals Evtushenko in popularity. His latest volume of verse ran up an advance sale of 100,000 in Russia, and his public readings have packed a Moscow sports palace with 14,000 bellowing poetry buffs. What is more, in these always adequate and sometimes redoubtable translations, Voznesensky (pronounced Voz-nes-yen-ski) considerably surpasses Evtushenko in poetic capacity. He is indisputably the most powerful lyric poet to appear in Russia since Pasternak...