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...chair sits a senior from a suburban high school, full of new-won know-how in math, afire with the impulse to do something "meaningful." In the next chair sits a small slum kid, who flunked arithmetic in his big and unruly second-grade class last year. The kid needs some of what the senior has, and he's getting it. Such, in essence, is tutoring, this summer's nationwide channel for student idealism...
...wave of immigrants swept into the city while disgruntled middle-and high-income burghers fled into the surrounding county suburbs. Gracious mansions became tenements. By 1952, the city was one-quarter slum, another quarter near slum. No new office buildings had been put up in 25 years. Industry pulled out in wholesale lots. Property values and business activity plunged. "You might ask," wrote English Author Geoffrey Grigson in 1951, "why anyone would be proud of such a dump...
Recruits for Resurgence. Tucker recruited the city's business leaders to help work on problems ranging from slum clearance to the downtown traffic tangle. To fight blight while bringing the city budget back from the red, Tucker pushed through a $110 million public-improvements bond issue, lured in federal and private capital to help...
...some $2 billion worth of major construction is under way or planned in the metropolitan area. A 454-acre midtown tract of slums called Mill Creek Valley, filled with slum housing that cried out for rebuilding in 1954, is now one of the largest urban-renewal areas in the U.S. A substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch...
...private houses has shot out of reach for millions of people. Last week, as government officials everywhere stewed over what to do, France's overbuilt bureaucracy took a few steps to ease its Crise du Loge-ment. It freed some state lands for housing development, announced a major slum-razing and rebuilding program, and sliced back the paperwork that now stymies building permits for up to two years...