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...helped manage Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 Alabama campaign and was named U.S. Attorney in 1953. Two years later, a week before his 37th birthday, he was appointed the youngest federal judge in the country. In June of 1956, Johnson and another federal judge ordered desegregation of the Montgomery transit system, extending the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision beyond the schools for the first time. In the years that followed, Johnson-acting alone or as a member of a three-judge panel-desegregated public facilities, voided attempts to evade such orders through "private" schools...
...mobility," says Roger Fox, an executive of the Chicago Urban League. "They just can't pick up and move on to where there are jobs." Among the many reasons: high rents in the suburbs (even compared with the extortionate sums charged by many slumlords), lack of cars and mass transit, and the resistance of many communities to low-income housing. Margie Figueroa, 21, typifies the problem. She had to commute two hours each way, on three buses and a train, from Chicago's Humboldt Park barrio to her job as a maid at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near O'Hare...
...minimum-wage payments to the youthful unemployed. Directed specifically to the underclass, the program would allow businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise refuse to fill. Another wise Government investment would be to shift some federal funds to more and better mass transit, which, beyond all its benefits to the environment, would give the underclass access to all the new job opportunities in the suburbs...
...Baggage checkout: 20 min. Immigration and customs: airport's only delight. Hotels/Motels: pleasant, modern facilities near beach at Ostia, five miles away. Amenities: substandard. Coffee bars (espresso 30?, Coke 57?). Best restaurant: International Airport Restaurant. Ten bars, open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; one in international transit section open 24 hr. Two tax-free shops selling only liquor and cigarettes. (Best distraction for passenger with two hours to spare: Roman ruins with fine mosaics near by.) Four first-aid stations with nurse or doctor open 24 hr. Overall: Dante's Purgatory...
...Baggage, immigration and customs: fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...