Word: tenementation
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...City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...
Real Enemy. In each city, police specialists and interracial civilian groups battle the gathering trouble. Chicago youth workers have infiltrated Lawndale Negro teen-age gangs. But they admit to only "minimal results," because they can offer no positive antidote to unemployment and tenement housing. Nor in any of the three cities has there been the necessary citywide reaction against violence. Worst of all, as summer wears on and interracial ugliness increases, there is no practical way to counteract the crudest antagonist stalking the dark city streets. Said Chicago Police Sergeant Thomas Marriner last week: "Our real enemy is rumor...
...concerns himself with peasants and is old-guard; in Rocco he has reverently revived the techniques he and such directors as Rossellini (Open City) and De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) used in the 1940's. Rocco keeps all the bench marks of Italian neo-realism-the urine-streaked tenement walls, the fields full of rubble, the endless squawk of language ("Ecco! Ecco! Basta! Basta!"). And flaring fitfully in the three-hour brawl of exposed frames that Visconti could not bring himself to edit, there is also some of the power of the postwar masterpieces...
Tiger by the Tail. Born in a Manhattan tenement district and raised in Queens, Ford burst upon the Yankees in the middle of the 1950 season, a brash 21-year-old with strawberry-blond hair, flashing blue eyes and an asphalt-seasoned sense of humor. He had tried out four years earlier as a first baseman and, after being told that he was too scrawny, turned to pitching in a tough sandlot club until a record of more than 20 wins earned him a $7,000 bonus to play Class C ball for the Yankees. As a rookie...
...Young Savages. Savage gang warfare in the tenement-glutted asphalt jungle, in which the street punks fare far better than the plot-laden squares...