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POOR COW. Actress Carol White is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope in the London-slum flat she shares with a thief...
Although Columbia does own a good $200 million worth of Manhattan real estate-including the land under Rockefeller Center-the boast is not literally true. But to many of the university's neighbors on Morningside Heights, Columbia is about as popular as a slum landlord. Last week 150 demonstrators, including many sympathetic students, clashed with police while trying to block construction of a new university gymnasium on park land that some residents of nearby Harlem wish to protect. Thirteen protesters were arrested. The confrontation was the latest in a long series of emotional disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights...
Cities in Crisis. The major aim of the President's proposals was to induce private industry to assume a larger role in solving the nation's housing problems, as proposed in a study by a presidential slum-housing commission headed by Industrialist Edgar Kaiser. To that end, he urged the creation of a National Housing Partnership of major firms that are not now in the building industry. Because of its large size, the National Partnership could reduce costs by standardizing construction plans and making massive purchases, and at the same time serve as a central clearinghouse for local...
Black Power sentiment is fed, among other things, by the urban Negro's pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...
POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never hurts...