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Many proponents of open housing say that its goal is to break up the slums by dispersing Negroes more evenly throughout the population, but the low-income slum dweller is actually least likely to be affected. He is too often psychologically reluctant to forsake the emotional security of the ghetto and financially incapable of doing so. It is the educated Negro with a middle or upper income who is most eager-and able-to get out of the ghetto and explore the society around him. Actor-Comic Bill Cosby (costar of TV's / Spy) lives...
Despite the fact that the Negro who does vault from slum to suburb is likely to be the economic and educational peer of his new neighbors, many whites react with unreasoning fear or hostility to the idea of having a Negro next door. Few things have done more to create this attitude than the high incidence of crime and violence in the black ghettos. Moreover, the swift deterioration of some public housing projects occupied by Negroes leads many whites to believe that the arrival of a Negro family is the certain prelude to garbage in the streets, broken windows, cockroaches...
Showman Billy Rose throve on paradox. He was a tiny man who loved tall girls, an East Side slum product turned art patron and esthete, a Broadway hipster who became a shrewd Wall Street investor. Though he died six months ago, leaving an estate that may run as high as $50 million, the para oxes are not ended - Billy Rose has yet to be buried...
Typically, the books have brightly colored pictures-on the cover and inside-of Negro, Puerto Rican and white children sitting together on tenement steps or splashing together in the spray of a fire hydrant. They depict the plight of slum children with touches of humor and pathos. One story tells of a kid who moves to Manhattan's Tenth Street and has to beat up the toughest boy on the block to be accepted. Main flaw in some books is that the integration is too tidy: illustrations too often show exactly three kids together-one Negro, one Puerto Rican...
...community and spiritual renewal in East Harlem. As a condition for accepting the seminary's presidency, Bonnell has been given a free hand in overhauling the curriculum, which will soon offer new masters' degrees in pastoral counseling and urban ministry, complete with on-the-job training in slum parishes...