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State Farm Insurance Man Tom Martin, a South Evanstonian, says: "We don't have suburban problems here. We have big-city problems." They do: race, rising crime rates (burglaries up from 594 in 1969 to 842 last year), low-income housing, downtown business stagnation, taxes, traffic, student unrest at Northwestern (which has a 21-year-old black woman as student body president). Evanston's acting city manager, Edward Martin, 27, finds the scene far from dismal. "We have all the problems of a major city," he says, "but on a manageable level. I feel...
Rhodes also served as a member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest...
...long the eerie tranquillity will last is a matter of conjecture. Many administrators fear a return of unrest in the spring, when youthful exuberances always blossom anew. Even if there is no further trouble, campus quiet is not synonymous with campus health. Oases for ideas, universities should be places of ferment. The violence of the past few years was, of course, unacceptable, but the student movement has called the nation's attention to some of its weaknesses?a hidebound educational establishment, inequitable draft laws, unrepresentative political procedures, to mention some of the most legitimate targets of protest. Despite...
Permanently Grounded. In 1946, when the Elder Statesman Victor Emmanuel Orlando first heard the 26-year-old Colombo deliver a speech before the Constituent Assembly, he said: "Now there is a Colombo [dove, in Italian] that will fly." What with labor unrest and the upsurge in neo-Fascist rioting, this dove has enough problems to keep him from taking wing for a while. Still, there is a chance-an outside chance, admittedly-that for the first time since De Gasperi retired in 1953, Italy may at last have a Premier who is not permanently grounded...
...Subcommittee on Internal Security has in past years held hearings on Communism, SDS, and student unrest. "They're fighting against the growing crisis of creeping subversion," Ansara said...