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...argument that appeals to critics of all persuasions is that the nation needs to "reorder its priorities." As envisioned by the Urban Coalition and other responsible groups concerned with improving the lot of the Negro slum dweller, any such redefinition of national values would involve a far more vigorous effort, both moral and economic, to deal with the problems of the cities...
...crisis. Giving Johnson far more than he had asked, it added $200 million to his request for the war on poverty (for a total $2.26 billion), initiated an entirely new two-year, $2.5 billion program, similar to one proposed by the Urban Coalition, to provide jobs for 200,000 slum dwellers, and authorized $300 million for small businesses hurt by riots...
...explosion in fire, bloodshed and ugly fame, Watts last week showed a striking change of face. Two thousand youngsters worked cheerfully at $1.27 an hour to beautify the ghetto streets; 2,400 more sang and sweated to overhaul an Army camp. Trees were growing, flowers were planted, and the slum dwellers were even about to take up farming. Watts today is no man's El Dorado, but it is no longer a no-man's land. There are hopeful new blossoms in yesterday's burned-out jungle...
Instant Tears. In her newest film, Up the Down Staircase, Sandy gracefully portrays the grim trials and triumphs of a green young teacher in a New York City slum school. Staircase was the official U.S. entry at the Moscow Film Festival in July. Sandy was there, rubbernecking and restaurant sampling, but left before she became the first American ever to win the festival's best-actress medal. Chances are that she still neither knows nor cares that last week Staircase (No. 2 draw in the U.S.) produced Christmas in August for Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall...
...desperate bid to wrest command from extremists, King declared nonviolent war to remedy the slum dweller's plight in Northern cities, promising a wave of civil disobedience, school boycotts, marches, sitdowns and sit-ins instead of fire bombs and snipers. "Mass disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force," declared King. But there were doubts about whether his S.C.L.C. could actually organize such nonviolent rebellion-or keep it nonviolent...