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Goaded by criticism of his urban programs, Johnson announced on his tour further plans to establish neighborhood centers to serve slum dwellers, directed that the number of storefront legal offices in rundown areas be increased to protect tenants from rapacious landlords, and called for the creation of a commission to undertake the first broad review of municipal codes, zones and taxation since 1931. All this -and much more that is needed-will cost money, and Lyndon Johnson may be indulging in just a little bit of rain dancing to make city dwellers feel better. This time, though, some rain...
...Worth police car sat outside the house, called by Charlie presumably because he feared that his father would resort to violence. To be near Charlie, Mrs. Whitman moved to Austin. The youngest son, John, 17, left home last spring. When he was arrested for pitching a rock through a storefront glass, the judge gave him a choice of a $25 fine or moving back in with his father; he paid the fine. Patrick, 21, who works for his father, is the only son who lives with...
...often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white foe-"was the enemy now, the lord of this filthy ghetto." White people, he said, "were making...
What McGovern envisions is using an empty storefront (or anything else available) for a pilot project. To be successful, he says, "you've got to have people with you in the area . . . You just don't put up a sign and say "Come and get it.'" He would like to have committees of both parents and teen-agers working with him, and his appointment to the City's advisory council on youth may provide the leverage to put his plans into effect...
...reputation as one of the liveliest and most provocative missionary experiments in the U.S. Last month the Ford Foundation paid tribute to its effectiveness with a grant of $600,000, which will be used to set up a new fellowship program for ministers, many of them Negroes from storefront churches of small sects...