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...graduates, including a 57-year-old divorcee from Columbia, Mo., a former personnel supervisor for the Chrysler Corp., and a 19-year-old California co-ed who had never before been away from home, will be stationed in such places as Appalachia, the Missouri Ozarks, a Negro slum in Las Vegas, and a migrant workers' camp in California...
...country Saturday, and he didn't look much like a Sunday School teacher either. Guarding the Crimson's Barry Williams in the high post, he gave Williams a physical working-over that would have done credit to a member of the switch-blade crowd in a New York slum. He pushed, shoved, and held mercilessly, and used his elbow like a jackknife...
...Bell, nor resolves to influence its course as does Weaver; instead he sets about looking for ways to reverse it. Living in congested areas, he says, makes people confused. Motivated by a mixture of good intentions, vigorous imagination, and economic ignorance, Goodman hits upon a program of boarding-out slum children to farms, that will alleviate congestion and simultaneously aid the small farmer...
...could push it over the brink. Thailand is a country that wants to be on our side, but it is a nation that has always been on the winning side, and this is the only way its independence has survived for a thousand years. Burma is an economic slum, with immense problems and immense pressures, and it will go. Malaysia couldn't possibly stand with its 10 million people surrounded by a sea of Communism." As for Indonesia, "the news has not been pleasant lately...
Epigram into Epic. Legal freedom, of course, does not abolish economic bondage. The heroine shacks up with a tenant farmer and watches a greedy landlord grind him down. Demoralized and dispossessed, the couple drifts to the big city and dissolves into a vast white slum remarkably like Harlem. At the climax, both are caught up in street riots and tandup strikes that gradually evolve into an effective drive for racial equality...