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...Barred, 5 to 4, a suit attacking zoning in a suburb of Rochester, N.Y., for allegedly discriminating against the poor. The court ruled that none of the plaintiffs, including residents of the suburb and slum dwellers who claimed they had been excluded, had been sufficiently harmed to have standing to bring suit...
...duty cop during an armed robbery. "The crime itself was inexcusable," says MacEwen, who is studying for his M.A. in psychology and works for the Illinois Department of Corrections. "But I was 20, and what I was also holds true for most young whites and blacks in ghetto slum areas. We would classify each other, and then we would have to live up to the classification. I thought I was hip, in the know, wise, and umpteen other things...
...social and intellectual level. Determinedly throwing off a puritanical upbringing, he tirelessly pursued sexual conquests, grappling in the backs of taxis, making passes in tango palaces. His most satisfying affair was with a woman he later wrote about in Memoirs of Hecate County, a waitress from a Brooklyn slum who had a husband in Sing Sing...
...casual eye, the tiny (50-sq.-mi.) Italian island of Pantelleria has little to recommend it. Halfway between Sicily and North Africa, it has no beaches, no good harbors, no scenic little coves and no vegetation to speak of. Its one town looks like a slum-clearance project, and its 8,240 people are among the poorest in Italy. Volcanic springs, more like oversized tea kettles than proper Ve-suviuses, gurgle and smolder in the interior and, from shore to barren shore, there is not a drop of water fit to drink. Water, like almost all the island...
...science of economics has no more grim indicator of what is happening in the nation than the number of men who are forced to find refuge, as best they can, in the squalor of Manhattan's Bowery. This week the city-operated Men's Shelter in the slum will give Thanksgiving dinners to some 2,000 people, an increase of more than 50% over 1973's figure. The number who are seeking out the shelter day to day is up 22% in a year's time and includes the largest group of young men seen...