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Starting from Carter Playground, at the corner of Columbus Ave. and Camden St. in Roxbury, the march will pass through Boston, stopping at schools and slums along the way. On the Common, King will speak on the "focal points of the Freedom Struggle in Boston": slum housing, municipal code enforcement, anti-poverty programs, and education. Virgil Wood, president of the Massachusetts branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said yesterday that King would probably comment on the Boston School Committee...
...steep to escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...action. It has cleaned up sewage that had been accumulating for weeks in the basement of a city-owned building; towed away autos that had been abandoned for more than a month, clogging residential streets while they were gradually stripped of parts; stepped-up housing inspections of heatless, waterless slum buildings; installed a long-deferred central telephone to process housing complaints...
When the school's boyish-looking director, Dr. Gordon McAndrew, 38, a University of California Ph.D. who had headed a $2,000,000 project for the slum kids of Oakland's public schools, first heard of the North Carolina plan, he scoffed: "Anybody who'd get involved in that must be crazy as hell." But he did. Now he calls it "the most exciting experiment in education in America today." The thrill, he explains, comes in plucking the slipping student out of his failure-filled environment at the eighth-grade level-"about the last point of intervention...
...Fourth Amendment, which bans "unreasonable searches and seizures," sets an arrest standard of "probable cause," meaning sufficient evidence to convince a prudent man that an offense has been or is being committed. In short, arrest for mere suspicion is unconstitutional-though it is so widely practiced in crime-ridden slum areas that about 100,000 such arrests a year are openly listed in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports...