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...that have grievously hurt the quality of life. A prohibition on hiring shrank the city's police force by 800 cops last year, despite a level of street crime that makes many New Yorkers barricade themselves in their apartments after sundown. At the overcrowded Morrisania City Hospital in The Bronx, a new obstetrics wing is kept locked because there is no money to hire anyone to operate it. Slashes in city support of the New York Public Library have forced it to reduce its operating hours from 78 to 40 per week, and to close many of its special research...
...Herald Tribune, where he was eventually assigned to cover the Dodgers' 1952 and '53 seasons. These were the years when the Dodgers again lost the World Series to the Yankees, when the cry of "Wait'll next year!" rose over Flatbush. After Brooklyn finally defeated their Bronx rival in 1955 and then resumed their brilliant bumbling, the cry became "Wait'll last year!" The team was still one of the most exciting ever to take the field. There were Furillo's long, accurate throws from right field, Billy Cox's impossible, spidery stops...
...Detroit News Correspondent Jerry terHorst got a banner headline back home for his account of a visit to a Peking auto assembly plant. The New York Daily News made much of the observation by U.P.I.'s Norman Kempster that "Peking looks like a working-class neighborhood in The Bronx." Even when correspondents did make prolonged contact with responsive individual Chinese, as the Times's Frankel did with some students at Peking University, the results could be unnerving. One student said the bloodshed during the recent Cultural Revolution was necessary because it helped expose enemies of the people. Frankel...
Hollywood Television Theatre. "Awake and Sing." Clifford Odets's drama about the Bronx during the depression, with Walter Matthau and Felicia Farr. 8, March 6, Chan...
...South Bronx, as Fireman Smith sees it, is a prison taken over by the inmates, who still think anything wearing a blue uniform is a cop. They turn in about twelve malicious false alarms a day to Smith's company alone (in Greater New York, MFAs are now coming in at the rate of 90,000 a year...