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...even heroic efforts by Negro leadership could only dent the Negro crime problem, because essentially it is a white problem. And it will remain a severe problem until Northern whites, private citizens as well as civic officials, recognize that Negro crime is basically a symptom of a failure in integration, and start attacking discrimination in the North with the same fervor they show in arguing for civil rights in the South...
Detroit's pessimism, like its unemployment, is more than merely a symptom of the U.S.'s current recession. The recession only made chronic trouble acute. Memories of dead or departed auto companies-Hudson, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer-remind Detroiters that trouble in the auto industry can have something to do with bad management. "You know," says a businessman, "when we were the arsenal of democracy, there was a great premium put on inefficiency of operation. The more payroll a company had, the more profit it would make on the cost-plus arrangement. And when the war ended, there...
...Pennsy's wintertime problems, and those of its sister roads, were one more symptom of the basic ill health of U.S. railroads. Faced with over-regulation by the Interstate Commerce Commission and increasingly tough competition from trucks and airlines, they have not been able to earn the money they need to keep up the kind of service the U.S. expects and demands. In January, said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes, gross revenues slipped 15.5% from a year ago to $69.4 million, leaving the line with its third monthly deficit ($2,527,222) in a row. And to underscore...
Last week the National Association of Chiropodists changed its name to American Podiatry Association, hoped that victims of corns, calluses and ingrown toenails would begin calling the nation's 8,000 foot doctors "podiatrists" (foot healers). To most patients the new name, like the old symptom, would be a pain in the foot...
...longueurs on life, the Rimbaudelairean sentimentality about evil, the fashionable despairs with the Paris labels on them. But then the author has provided the vital thing in the picture too: a story that seizes the imagination and insists on being read not only as a story but as a symptom of one of the more exotic diseases of leisure...