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...Harlem and Brooklyn's Ocean Hill-Brownsville were once solidly Jewish; now the Jewish presence is signified by absentee storekeepers and landlords who, fairly or not, are regarded by the Negro as colonial exploiters. More often than not, the black child is taught?in a crumbling, inadequate public school???by a Jewish teacher. More often than not, the hated neighborhood welfare center, to the black a symbol of indifferent, domineering white bureaucracy, is staffed by Jewish social workers. "If you happen to be an uneducated, poorly trained Negro living in the ghetto," says Bayard Rustin, executive director...
...were, in large part, the result of having exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school???he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
...play tackle football with the older kids in Akron, and the only way mom could get him home was to come after him with the sawed-off broomstick she used to stir the family wash. As an eighth-grader, Ara was everybody's nomination for Toughest Kid in school???even the Board of Education's. "They were having a lot of trouble with vandals breaking windows," recalls Older Brother Gerard, 43, a Toledo businessman. "So they just hired Ara to patrol the grounds. The checks came directly from the Board of Education. He was real proud of that...
When the boys come home?15-year-old Christopher from Fordham Prep, the middle three from St. Augustine's parochial school???they go to their mother and spill out the news of the day; but they respect their father's privacy, since his threads break on interruption, while hers do not. All the Kerrs usually have dinner together, even if there is an opening. Walter and Jean are lucky if they can get a bite in edgewise, which may go some distance toward explaining why Walter Kerr's reviews?as the New Yorker has pointed out?are stuffed with wistful...
...playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school???Jean Francois Millet...