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...City Council last week, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner plainly meant to point with pride to municipal progress under his administration. But what Bumbling Bob inadvertently achieved was something quite different: an ugly picture of a city in which hundreds of thousands live amid squalor, disease and violence. Items...
...Shame, an hour-long study of the plight of the U.S. migratory worker presented last Nov. 25 on CBS Reports. Deliberately scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, the documentary drew for turkey-stuffed Americans a stark picture of the field hands who rove about the country, living in makeshift squalor, and selling their labor for an average of $900 a year. Moving in shirtsleeves among the film's subjects, Narrator Murrow reached heights of personal indignation, as when he quoted one migrant-hiring Southern farmer: "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them...
...grandeur. Even to the most casual observer, this area should suggest that Harvard is not the came when the battle began, the fact that itself. While the University has been sleeping and so fancying, the adjacent area has been deteriorating, has become in many places a breeding ground for squalor and its concomitant juvenile delinquency. Such conditions (among others) must have a decided effect on a university that also has a critical housing problem for its married and graduate students and instructors. And the slum problem is only one of the many that can have a decisive effect on Harvard...
Only 35 miles from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages-without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino's squalor is its isolation; for centuries its only access to the outside world has been a winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice...
...King Feisal. There is ample cause for unrest in the Shah's kingdom, and from across the border, Radio Moscow keeps up a steady drumfire of abuse. In his shabby capital of Teheran, a small portion of the population lives in splendor while the rest exist in the squalor of centuries, washing themselves in the open gutter jubes which double as sewers and water mains. In the arid countryside, the poor scrape the soil at wages of 60? a day while absentee landlords flatly refuse to follow the Shah's lead in giving up some of their property...