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Pinpointed especially were the most threatened of New York's 34,000 acres of park, 725 playgrounds, 17 swimming pools and 18 miles of sandy, sunny beach as well as 14 "high hazard" slum areas, where more than 100 organized gangs prowl the streets. To these potential trouble points went 700 extra police in uniform or plainclothes, on foot or in radio cruisers, trained and ready to study the faces of an uncertain generation and to move in hard and fast on its rebels...
...headed east across town, past the filthy, begrimed tenement brownstones where families loiter on the front stoops in the evening warmth, through the smelly, crowded section east of Park Avenue and over to East End Avenue. East River Drive was deserted. But near by, lolling against a slum tenement, were 25 boys and about ten girls, mostly Italian...
...York a battle of philosophies whose outcome may have as lasting effects on the city as the war of the streets. Kennedy's use-force orders draw cries of protest from social scientists. They point to increasing arrest rates in the 14 heavily policed high-hazard slum areas, where social agencies thought they had made headway with a gentler approach toward juveniles. And they vehemently disapprove of Kennedy's decision on the proper function of the police department's Juvenile Aid Bureau...
...story is set in the South of France in the midst of what Author Brown called "the champagne campaign" of 1944. His heroes, a slum-bunny lieutenant (Frank Sinatra) and a rich-kid sergeant (Tony Curtis), fight the Germans all week in the hills, fight the booze all weekend on the Riviera. Then Sinatra meets a pretty girl (Natalie Wood) and falls in love with her, even though her mother (Leora Dana), a U.S. expatriate, has informed him that the girl's father was a Negro...
...leads his own celebrated band, the "Alexandra Junior Bright Boys," which started out playing for coppers, by now has made three hit records and gets featured billing at Johannesburg City Hall concerts. Reason: the haunting sound of pennywhistle jazz has become the favorite music of South Africa's slum-caged blacks-and of a great many white hipsters...