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...unable to go to a private hospital or to choose their own doctors. "Medicare and medicaid have made obsolete the concept of charity medicine," says Dr. Andrew P. Sackett, Boston's Health and Hospitals Commissioner. The fact that City lies in Boston's oldest and most horrible slum somewhat obscures the meaning of this fact. There are people who do need a charity hospital; the small waiting room at City's admitting office is full of confused, bewildered, weary people who are hardly--if at all--aware of medicare...
...sight of grinding poverty stalking the land in slum areas and on tenant farms is saddening enough, but it is difficult to find a name to fit the man who would exploit the misery and suffering of those less fortunate than himself by threatening to use them in massive marches, sit-ins and camp-outs, demanding speedups on his own terms to tremendous social and economic changes already afoot in the land...
...suburbanites that descended on New York City's ghetto districts one recent weekend, brooms and paintbrushes in hand, left most of their neighbors at home in various degrees of disinterest. "Volunteerism is not any great answer," says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans. "The suburbanites who go into the slum have contact, but they probably need it the least. The ones who need it are the ones who stayed home...
...Catholic, I am greatly excited about the idea of one of our prelates halting his building programs in order to use the funds to alleviate the immediate problems of the poor. For too long the ludicrous situation has existed where the poor have trudged from country hovels and slum cellars to worship in million-dollar edifices of stone, marble and gold leaf...
...might be the evening scene in any city slum. Unkempt youths clot the stoops of dilapidated tenements, talking overboldly of drugs; drunks reel along gutters foul with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...