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Brazil was not amused to see itself in a five-part LIFE Magazine study of Latin America last spring. Photographer Gordon Parks had paid a visit to a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and recorded with his camera the often noted but still incredible squalor in which the favelados live-within a ten-minute drive of Rio's beautiful Copacabana Beach. But if Brazilians were stung by the truths of LIFE'S camera, by last week in the pages of O Cruzeiro (circ. 700,000), Brazil's largest picture magazine, they were reaping the rich satisfaction...
Especially disturbed by the Negro slum neighborhoods in which half the boys between 16 and 21 are out of school and out of work, Conant proposed a series of specific measures that he claimed are "drastically" needed...
Emphasizing the need for increased funds to problem schools, Conant stated, "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy surburban schools and in the slum schools challenges the concept of opportunity in American public education." The Negro student will benefit more from improved schools, he added, than from token integration across zoning lines...
This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel. Every time he opens his mouth, he picks at the scab of past wrongs and present hates. A wily slum serf, the tramp raises a mock one-finger salute to his masters, and plays the brothers off against each other. They, in turn, offer him the nebulous post of care taker, and finally, in mutual revulsion, cast him out to an unknown fate...
...Children of Sánchez, by Oscar Lewis. A tape-recorded documentary in which each of five members of a slum-dwelling Mexico City family tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality. Far from the dusty aridities of social science, the book offers a powerful, touching and intimate view of the long, and far from simple, annals of the poor...