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Smiling, joking, occasionally backslapping, Louis Turco presided genially over a Newark city council meeting one afternoon last week. Then an aide approached and whispered something into his ear. The Democratic council president paled. He bowed his head and hurried from the room. Turco had just learned that he had been indicted on ten charges of mail fraud and four counts of income-tax evasion...
...meant a biennial trip to the hospital for surgery. Reason: the conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed in their chests...
...More recently, they capped their achievements by landing men on the moon. Indeed, such was their success that many people became convinced that there were scientific or technological "fixes" for all the nation's problems, including its most serious social ills. Even as late as 1967, after Watts, Newark and Detroit had been engulfed in flames, the dean of M.I.T.'s College of Engineering, Gordon Brown, could be heard to proclaim: "I doubt if there is such a thing as an urban crisis, but if there were, M.I.T. would lick it in the same way we handled...
Racial tensions are not at the flare point of the mid-1960s, yet friction is rarely far from the surface, particularly in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Newark. Crimes against property have been leveling, but violent crimes against people continue to stalk the urban areas. Many cities are doing better financially than in recent years, but the nation's five biggest-New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit -are either in the red or otherwise financially troubled...
...give in to the teachers' "arrogance," was that President Nixon's chief negotiator, Assistant Secretary of Labor Willie Usery, had just settled the second-longest teacher strike in the nation's history. It had lasted eleven weeks and two days (two days short of the 1971 Newark walkout) of mounting bitterness that will not soon die. "I don't think we'll even try to talk to the scabs," said Fifth Grade Teacher Anne Philips...