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...recruit subjects for their experiment, University of Wisconsin Psychologists Rick Heber and Howard Garber went to a slum, which typically is the section of any city with the highest concentration of the mentally retarded. Initial testing showed that retarded mothers are likely to have retarded children, but did not reveal the reason. Heber and Garber suspected that it was the way in which the retarded mothers dealt with their children that made the critical difference between them and the children of equally impoverished mothers of normal intelligence...
...reason Pruitt-lgoe failed is sociological and financial, rather than racial. Planners built in the worst slum in St. Louis. Many of the first tenants were drawn from the high-crime area, and brought their problems with them. As a result, the working-class white and black families living in Pruitt-lgoe began to move out. With apartments empty, St. Louis welfare officials pressured the Public Housing Authority to admit more welfare cases...
...concentrates more on appearances. She left full-time modeling in 1969 to become vice president and part owner of the integrated Peachtree Center Models, Inc., which now has annual billings of $180,000. She also has won four antipoverty contracts totaling $70,000 from the Federal Government to teach slum children etiquette, posture and neatness-to help make it easier for them to get jobs...
Until it exploded in 1965, Watts was America's most under-publicized slum. Largely this lack of notice stemmed from the fact that Watts does not strike the eye in the same way that Bedford-Stuyvesant, Columbia Point, or Hough does. Absent is the visual oppressiveness of old six-story run-downs, crumbling brownstone block houses, and the vertical caskets of towering, post-war housing projects. If one is not paying attention, it's possible and perhaps even easy to drive from nearby Inglewood across Watts to South Gate or above on the Harbor Freeway without sensing that the community...
...Essay on population [Sept. 13] Otto Friedrich's optimism would be more credible if he could cite any advantages in having more people on the face of the earth, or in the U.S. What river would be purer? What slum would be more livable? What crime statistics would decline? How would life become more meaningful...