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Having carefully built his case against federal urban renewal, Anderson pauses a moment to brush away any possibilities of modifying "an inherently bad program," and then launches into his soapbox appeal. For obvious reasons, he doesn't waste much time trying to defend empirically his gospel that "private enterprise can." Such defense as he offers--in the chapter on "The Quality of Housing"--rests on statistics showing that the greatest improvements in the overall quality of city housing between 1950 and 1960 came from the efforts of unaided private builders...
...Trouble with Generals. Decision is the first series ever to star a former President of the United States, and Truman's unreined personality is the whole show. He will be keeping it up for 26 weeks. His program, syndicated in nearly 60 cities, is his ultimate personal soapbox, on which he intends to tell his version of the story-if not for once, for all. In future weeks he will discuss everything from the atom bomb to the Berlin airlift, but mainly he will simply aim his chin at the camera...
...Riverhead, Long Island, moans over "this creeping menace of real estate, these acres and acres of housing colonies, shopping centers, garish neon lights blazing all night long, and every other kind of desecration of beautiful Long Island." At nearly every stop across the country, Caldwell parks his rent-a-soapbox and rips off a little speech. In Birmingham the subject is integration, and the speech takes the form of a catechism (Q. "Will desegregation and integration produce a mulatto social system in the United States?" A. "Probably."). In Nacogdoches, Texas, he sounds off on writers' conferences with some...
Children poured into the playground and found two jet planes, a tank and three trolleys, an 1870 locomotive, a Coast Guard tug, an amphibious craft, a fire engine, a Marine obstacle course and a soapbox racing track. There were some old-fashioned things too-basketball courts, swings and seesaws...
...with views like Wallace's is entitled to a soapbox and to police protecties-nothing mere. No student group serves the cause of free speech by giving such an individual a responsible platform...