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...moment the camera focused on the kids in the cast, Armstrong Circle Theater's Zone of Silence (CBS) changed from a quiet, competent documentary into a warm and moving play. A tour through The Bronx's St. Joseph's School for the Deaf turned into a tense, hour-long exploration of all the dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties. With consistent skill, none of the youngsters ever seemed to slip out of the isolating "zone of silence," but none of them fitted the difficult script with more professional precision than a blue-eyed, bang-trimmed...
...Bronx, no less than in Shropshire, it is true that...
...John Kieran, 67, used the 50 springs well; sportswriter, naturalist and radio fountain of knowledge (Information Please), he was born, raised and schooled in The Bronx (Fordham, cum laude, 1912), all told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature, Kieran's thesis always has been: "Let men build and pave to their hearts' content, there will always be many kinds and untold numbers of wild things in the great city...
Outside a slum-neighborhood high school in The Bronx, a cluster of Puerto Rican teenagers, members of the Royal Knights street gang, waited for their victim. When school let out. the hoodlums swarmed around John Guzman, member of the enemy Valiant Crowns gang, and started shoving and punching him. Guzman fled back toward the door of the school building. Royal Knight Edward Peres, 16, drew out a shortened. .22-cal. rifle and shot him in the chest...
...murder of John Guzman, 16, seventh teen-ager killed in street-gang violence in New York City in the past three months, fueled up already blazing feuds between Bronx street gangs. Two days after the killing, police headed off a massive outbreak of violence by nabbing ten Royal Knights allies who were waiting on a Bronx rooftop to ambush an oncoming invasion of the neighborhood by revenge-seeking Valiant Crowns. In the ambush arsenal: 20-gauge shotgun, .22-cal. rifle, two hunting knives, stacks of bricks, nine Molotov cocktails-gasoline-filled bottles with rag wicks, to be ignited just before...