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Armstead and Harris are college-bound, but they are the exceptions. For most slum kids, says Hunter College Sociologist Ernest Smith, "the American dream is not the American fact. These children cannot respond to what is being taught, and most educators resist changing the curriculums to aid these children." Kenneth B. Clark, New York psychologist and civil rights leader, holds that "the Negro kid who drops out of school is probably doing so to protect himself from a system designed to throw him on the dung heap of our society...
...such efforts, carried on much of the time in a nightmare slum landscape filled with vermin and violence, the pay is poor. The top salary for an investigator with nine years' experience is $7,190 a year-just a little more than a city-employed laborer gets after only one year and only $1,000 more than his top client gets for no work at all. As a result, the Welfare Department is forced to hire untrained and inexperienced hands who never stay around long enough to do much good. Obviously, New York's welfare workers need improved...
...think he has - between boat shows. But when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua non for sea farers, the amateur skipper realizes that his year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious? A speedometer accurate to one one-hundredth of a knot? What about an unsinkable, watertight canvas bag, roomy enough to stow cameras, film...
...Ladies & Unwed Mothers. Son of a New Jersey coal-mine owner, Sargent studied for the Congregational ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, where he met and married the artist daughter of Princeton Theologian Paul Scherer, then a Union professor. He served his student pastorship in New York slum parishes, preached to congregations in Illinois, Massachusetts and Maine before applying for the Paris church...
...register surprise when you turn a corner in New York and find a different town: Walk reconstituted from the graceful spirituality of Riverside Church; you are a matter of blocks from the be-bop, voodoo jungle of Harlem. Gaze down from the tallest, plushest apartment building, and spy a slum at its feet. The very old is never far from the very new. Nor the very rich from the very poor...