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Twenty days ago, Israel Horovitz's play "Indian Wants the Bronx" played at the Loeb...
...Indian Wants the Bronx", one of Horovitz's most famous plays, is about two street-wise teenagers who violently tease an Indian at a New York City bus stop...
...police are convinced that some progress is being made; but it is painfully slow. So far this year, although some 600 apartment robberies have been investigated in The Bronx, only 82 arrests have been made. Voluntary agencies do what they can to ease the plight of the elderly, but the scope of the problem is overwhelming...
TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin last week paid a visit to the victim of one of the hundreds of robberies that are still unsolved. Charles Bertsch, 87, is a huge, hearty man who lives with a dozen cats in a cluttered Bronx basement apartment that he has occupied since 1911. The once prosperous neighborhood is now an age-blackened slum of begrimed apartment buildings lining rubbish-choked streets...
...Cited for basic research was Rosalyn S. Yalow of the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, both the first woman and first nuclear physicist to win a Lasker prize. Together with the late Dr. Solomon A. Berson, she developed a sophisticated new tool called radioimmunoassay (RIA) for measuring minuscule quantities of pharmacological and biological substances. Using radioactive isotopes as tracers in antigen-antibody reactions, the technique is becoming increasingly important in everything from diagnosing disease to finding poisons in murder victims...