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Many private citizens agree. In a follow-up study for the President's riot commission, a new survey estimates that one-third of the white community looks to tougher police to solve riots, one-third favors eradication of slum problems, and one-third wavers from side to side, supporting repressive measures on the one hand and poverty programs on the other. Right now, the balancing third may very well be moving toward the get-tough sector. "The American people," said Texas Governor John Connally, "are tired of dissension and turmoil and crisis. Wallace is gaining strength because he appeals...
Bold Gamble. Though fewer than a score of black guerrillas were engaged in the battle, the slum telegraph swiftly rapped out reports, igniting a full-scale riot. Looters and arsonists rampaged through a six-square-mile area, as well as in nearby Hough, which suffered a five-day riot in 1966. Mayor Carl Stokes, who as the Negro candidate for the office last year inspired the slogan "Cool Cleveland for Carl," hoped that he might again stave off trouble. He was reluctantly forced to call on Ohio Governor James Rhodes for help. Within twelve hours, 2,700 National Guardsmen were...
Sensitive to Needs. Harv Oostdyk, director of the program for the Urban League, argues that most slum children are potential college .material-shrewd, realistic decision makers whose choices often determine their own survival. "A kid who grows up on the streets," says Oostdyk, 35, who dropped out of New York University to become a youth worker, "is vastly more sensitive to human need and responses than most middle-class kids." The tragedy is that public schools have been unable to tap that potential...
...life is to do good by negative actions. Spider halts the installation of Muzak broadcasting in the subways by threatening to unload garbage on the Muzak man's beach. Marie does her bit by joining a major political party and then subverting the party hacks by persuading slum dwellers to organize a rent strike. There are other liberal, square attacks on the illiberal squares, among them the rout of a women's march protesting the establishment of a neighborhood clinic for drug addicts...
...feasible to transplant this territorial identity even to a traffic island. For example, a massive black cube sculpture rests on a tiny traffic island at the juncture of Fourth Avenue and Astor Place, where Manhattan's Bowery slum, hippieland, an industrial zone and a growing clump of theatres all converge. No one, from hippie to day laborer, fails to turn his head as he walks by, an some stop to stare. The work has become an image in my mind which is always positively associated with the area. This one sculpture gave the Astor Place neighborhood a coherent image which...