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...past these slum-dwellers live in is a tenuous one, and as it is increasingly exposed to the pressures of industrialization prevalent throughout Latin America, it will be assimilated into the national, Western-like culture the cities represent. The children of the women who speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats...
...long as he was getting what seemed to be the right things done, such highhandedness was all right. But one of Moses' jobs was overseeing the city's slum clearance program, and by the 1950s some "developers"-political insiders chosen by Moses-had begun milking the slum properties instead of putting up much needed new housing...
Meningitis-inflammation of the parchment-like covering of the brain and spinal cord-was relatively uncommon in Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those...
Richard Ravitch, 41, studied law at Yale before becoming president of his family's HRH Construction Corp., whose volume totaled $150 million last year. In addition to erecting such well-known Manhattan structures as the Whitney Museum and Gulf & Western Building, Ravitch has attacked slum housing by putting up low-rent skyscraper developments in Harlem and Lower Manhattan. A politically active liberal Democrat, he now is a director of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the Fair Campaign Practices Committee...
Anybody who looks at a slum knows that not all blacks have made impressive economic and social advances, that huge numbers are weighed down by weariness and desolation. Indeed the nation's 24 million blacks are split into three groups of roughly equal size. Almost one-third have family incomes of $10,000 or more and enjoy many of the amenities of middle-class status. Another one-third, earning between $4,500 and $10,000, are either on the lower edges of the middle class or stand a fair chance of lifting themselves into it. Beneath them lies still...