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...WITH LOVE. This film about a British Guianian (Sidney Poitier), who takes a teaching job at a London slum school, attempts to blend realism with idealism-an unstable mixture saved only by Poitier's catalyzing warmth...
...Vice President told the Mayors that the problems of urban slums were oppressive. He cited the inadequate collection of garbage, dirty streets, high crime rates and inadequate law enforcement, decrepit housing, and inadequate public transportation as some of the slum's major problems...
...Studies, which Moynihan heads, is the most creative of the nation's new centers, † At Harvard, a course in urban problems that was introduced only in 1964 is now among the top three in popularity among undergraduates. At Chicago, graduate students, who once showed little interest in slum problems, are becoming urban specialists by studying the pathology of urban life...
...education is only one phase of the self-perpetuating cycle that entraps the Negro-a low-paying job, or none at all, leading to housing in a slum, leading to a segregated, second-rate school, leading back to an inferior job. The basic way to break the vicious circle, thinks Moynihan, is with money. "Beef up the family income," he says, "and everything else will follow in its train." Moynihan proposes two measures. The Federal Government, he says, should guarantee jobs by becoming the "employer of last resort" any time the national unemployment rate is above 3%. Merely putting...
...census showed that almost one-half of all the Negro housing was dilapidated or deteriorating, compared to 18 percent of white housing. Urban renewal has resulted in the relocation of families from slum neighborhoods to adjacent areas where equally bad situations are developing. Despite fair housing laws, Negroes are still largely restricted to the areas where they now live...