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...Chicago's Lawndale district on the west side of the city, the dark, slum-speckled streets breed a tale of terror. One night six Negro boys jumped out of the dark and lashed a 69-year-old white man with bicycle chains. Another gang waylaid a 12-year-old white boy in a schoolyard and bludgeoned him. Four white men dragged a Negro from his car, beat and robbed him, then for good measure smashed the car against a pole...
...Every afternoon paper in New York is written out of the Times and the News-though they do pick up slightly as the day goes on." Now and then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils of segregation. When Publisher Schiff proposed this Civil War Centennial treat for Post...
...toward meeting a growing public menace that former Harvard President James B. Conant recently called "social dynamite": the high school "drop-outs," who this year numbered 900,000, during the next decade may total 7,500,000. Out of school and out of work, such teen-agers (mainly in slum areas, many Negro migrants from the South) become a drug on the increasing skilled-labor market (compared with the national unemployment rate of 6.8%, the rate for youths 16 and 17 is 18.4%), prone to both crime and violence. Says Conant: "The building up of a mass of unemployed...
...head the centralized agency, the foundation picked able, imaginative Daniel Schreiber, 51, who showed that demoralized, bored Manhattan slum pupils eagerly looked toward higher educational horizons when and if they got the chance (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Said Schreiber, who now leaves his job as head of New York's "Higher Horizons" program: "These are the future goon squads for any subversive willing to pay them...
...uninterrupted years, a powerful G.O.P. machine ruled Philadelphia-and stole it blind. Then, in 1951, a group of young, liberal Democratic reformers threw the Republican rascals out of office. During the next years, the last 5½ of them under Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the reformers, with their programs for slum clearance, improved park and recreation facilities, and road construction, made Philadelphia a model of municipal progress. But as of last week able, aggressive Dick Dilworth was fighting for his political life as his aging reform administration was swamped by scandal...