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...uses fewer workers to turn out more cars than earlier plants, thereby freeing other workers for more interesting jobs. Thus, Wallenberg insists, "the significance of Lordstown is in who doesn't work there." Wilh a similar cavalier indifference that would hardly win him friends in the South Bronx, Wallenberg says that even "the meaning of the worst black slums ought to be weighed by determining who no longer lives there...
...guerrilla. Ten years ago, such an incident would have been considered eccentric and tragic. Today the list multiplies: a four-year-old Indianapolis boy was mauled to death in January; a six-year-old Long Island boy met a similar fate in April; in July a three-year-old Bronx lad was mauled. The question now is: Has the breed degenerated...
...Joseph D. McNamara, 39. The police chief of Kansas City, Mo., is the youngest in any major city and the only police officer in the U.S. with a Harvard doctorate in public administration. The Bronx-born son of a New York policeman, McNamara pounded a beat in Harlem for ten years. After he succeeded Clarence Kelley, now head of the FBI, McNamara caught a lot of flak-including an unsuccessful lawsuit charging that he lacked the required experience for his job. McNamara wants to apply computer analysis to crime prevention and to eradicate Hollywood's image of cops...
Herman Badillo, 44, the only Puerto Rican member of the U.S. House, represents a South Bronx district that consists largely of families with annual incomes close to or below the official poverty mark ($4,550 for an urban family of four). An orphan who came to the mainland at eleven, Badillo earned degrees in accounting and law, in 1965 won a tight race for Bronx borough president. A Democrat, he was first elected to Congress in 1970. He has also run unsuccessfully in two mayoral primaries, and since his real interest is New York City, he can be expected...
...woman I met that night is Belen Zayas, a "Newyorrican" from the South Bronx, whose mother had suffered the ultimate in women's exploitation; and whose father had been imprisoned for years. Zayas, who at 14 mothered a son, is a high school dropout who scored below the national average on her Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Thus, some would readily say that Zayas had the perfect criterion--economically, socially and academically--to ensure her rejection from Harvard University didate in the Radcliffe class...