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Tucked beneath the bluffs along the Mississippi on its Illinois shore, East St. Louis (pop. 80,000) is a squalid reach of crumbling brick buildings, battered frame shacks and sleazy taverns, redeemed only by a view of St. Louis' soaring Gateway Arch across the river. Poverty workers estimate that an appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand...
...years' absence is in for a surprise. In 1965, an empty expanse of Pacific Ocean reached away from the city's beaches, homes, hotels and marinas. Today, a chain of islands, complete with waving palm trees and towering high-rise buildings, is the view from the shore...
...silence, the father consents to let her marry a man whom she loves-and he despises. At the Greek fete, as Anestis drunkenly dances in celebration of his stepsister's wedding, the servant's body mysteriously rises to the water's surface and begins floating to shore, bringing with it the dissolution of the house of Canalis...
...Says Shore: "Governments have got to be tough with inefficiency...
...Snub from Labor. To do all that, one of the first places Wilson and Shore may have to show some muscle is in dealing with Britain's featherbedding unions. Southern Region Railway men, for example, are threatening a 24-hour strike this month because some train drivers have lost pay as unprofitable service has been curtailed. But handling such problems will be difficult. The powerful Trades Union Congress has gone so far as to snub the Prime Minister by not even asking him to address its annual meeting this week...