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Nightmare Landscape. The investigator is expected to process a never-ending mass of forms and applications, interview families to explore their situations and backgrounds, locate errant husbands, head off trouble-bound youngsters, find quarters for those evicted by landlords or tenement fires, worry over tardy or stolen relief checks. In between, he is supposed to provide his clients with whatever social services and counseling he deems necessary to get them off the dole and to keep them and their children from becoming "welfare addicts." Says one welfare-worker: "If I had the time, I could get a third...
...melting-pot brand of local color is graying around the edges now. The teeming foreign quarters are thinning out with the accents, as assimilation works her inexorable blending, and homey slums give way to lofty housing projects. Not much, in fact, enjoys permanence in New York: glimpses of ugly tenement and high-rent duplex shift kaleidescopically...
...presence of a Negro parents' association, composed mainly of the professional men among the area's new residents. Being college-educated or college-oriented, they insisted that Central keep the high academic standards that had previously benefited whites. This goal got little sympathy from the tenement Negroes: children of the better-off families were bullied, beaten and shaken down by young toughs who scorned any interest in books. But the goal found a hearty response in Principal Charles S. Lewis, 56, an imaginative, ambitious administrator who set out to prove that "good teaching and a driving force" would...
...Paterson a dozen punks boarded a bus, smashed windows and terrorized passengers. Negroes in a third-floor tenement rained debris down on a group of cops, then slammed the window. Firemen quickly scrambled up a ladder, smashed the window and seized two men and a woman. When bottles came hurtling out of another building, a flying wedge of cops charged in, flushed nine youths and arrested all but one-a child of seven or eight whom Mayor Graves whacked once on the behind and sent home...
...night the entire situation changes. The police stand apart from the people. For the heat there are very few people on the street--the usual escape from the five story tenement. Crowds still form, however, in front of many taverns and on many street corners...