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...JUNCTION. Suzy Kendall, the newest and perhaps brightest of Britain's new blonde birds, is reason enough to recommend this trip to a broken-down Battersea slum, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) and directed by Peter Collinson (The Penthouse...
...death. It was abetted by the carnival air that pervaded the looting mobs ("Hell, I can't kill a kid running away with two sports coats," said a Chicago cop) and the unprecedented cooperation of many black leaders-moderate and militant-in helping police to pacify angry slum dwellers...
...white suburbanites, who hiked through the city's smoldering Central Ward to show white concern with ghetto conditions. Nonetheless, some 270 fires were set (kerosene tins, shredded mattresses and broken Molotov-cocktail bottles were found in many gutted buildings), and as usual the hardest-hit were the Negro slum dwellers...
...fair as its 250th birthday present to itself. For what the city has really accomplished is urban renewal under the guise of a carnival, with the Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...
...JUNCTION. Another London slum saga, based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow), is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's feeling for the locale, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent...