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...Darkest America. Will such high-caliber volunteers come forward? Quiet polls at 70 campuses have shown high enthusiasm. A growing trend among collegians to tutor slum kids and help the aged is additional evidence. Next month the U.S. National Student Association will sponsor a conference to spur...
...creator of this pleasant pavilion is Architect Minoru Yamasaki, a wiry, 132-lb. Nisei who was born 50 years ago in a slum less than two miles from where the Science Pavilion now stands. In manner, he is the most courteous of men, often humble to a fault. But the core of the man is all steel, tempered not only by the anti-Nisei discrimination he has known, but also by his often lonely fight to reintroduce into architecture the embellishments that many modern architects tend to despise...
Recruiting of volunteers will begin in early summer, with a force of 200 to 500 corpsmen anticipated by August. The recruits will be used in migratory labor camps, Indian reservations, mental hospitals, urban and rural slum schools, prisons, recreation centers and the like...
...defend myself." So said Felicinda de Lozada, a 36-year-old Caracas housewife for whom a proud new world was opening up last week. Illiterate a year ago, Felicinda enrolled in one of the adult night schools that Venezuela's government has organized in her slum barrio. She now looks forward to a complete primary-school education, and then intends to get a job to help support her family...
...Joseph Stanley Sanders, 20, born in a south Los Angeles slum, is the son of a city garbage-truck driver. Stan's big brother Ed chose one way up-boxing-and died after being knocked out in his ninth pro fight. Stan's way led to top marks at mostly Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept...