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...thrust and counterthrust took place at one of a series of group-therapy sessions designed to promote understanding between Houston's police and Negroes. The six-week programs have been going on since last September. On each of six consecutive Fri days, as many as 200 policemen, divided into groups of 12 to 15, meet with equal numbers of citizens-both black and white-to thrash out differences. The fourth batch is now attending the three-hour sessions, each of which is guided by a trained psychologist...
...six-week course, for which they are paid $54 each, the police fill out unsigned questionnaires. Thus far, 19 rated the course excellent, 92 very good, 253 good. Only 74 graded it either poor or a waste of time-or refused to fill out the survey form. And even Chief Short admits that he is pleased with the results. By late fall, all 1,400 of Houston's police will, as Short puts it, "have gotten a closer look at the people." Already Sikes has received reports from the city's Negro districts of increased courtesy and assistance...
...Jungle Cruisers." The overall agreement was unprecedented, because for virtually the first time, local Negroes-even neighborhood militants-were represented directly in the six-week negotiations, telling the city's white leaders exactly what they wanted and needed. Even so, such progress may not be enough to defuse Newark. While last summer's riots were devastating the Negro neighborhoods, they were iust as disastrously poisoning some sections of the white community. In the city's blue-collar Italian wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs...
...release. The pacesetting federal system, which includes a no-wall unit at Seagoville, Texas, has institutionalized the "halfway houses" pioneered by religious groups to shelter ex-convicts seeking jobs. Intensive prerelease training at federal centers has cut some graduates' repeater rate by 15%. Texas boasts a remarkable six-week course at a relaxed center near Houston, where civilian volunteers (bankers, auto salesmen, personnel experts) teach felons how to get loans, buy cars, apply for jobs-things many never knew. Result: a repeater rate of 13.9%, down from 35% five years...
...first sign that something was out of order came when Shaw students, returning to Raleigh for the six-week summer term, noticed a number of white faces on campus. Most of them assumed that the whites were enrolled for the summer--but discovered later, at an opening-day assembly, that the strangers were Harvard and Radcliffe students who would be tutoring them and living in the dormitories. The students were more startled than pleased...