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MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. In his controversial quasi-autobiography, the literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his scramble from the obscurity of a Brooklyn slum to a position of prestige and influence in the New York literary world...
...South Carolina cotton picker as a child, Harlem slum dweller as a teenager, Singer Kitt listened with growing impatience to the women's pernickety reports about the causes of crime in the streets. Finally she spoke up-with passion, if not with convincing logic...
Ghetto Communication. Most of those job seekers were from slum areas, for the program is everywhere targeted primarily at minority groups. Edward Kenefick, general manager of Chicago's WBBM-TV, got the idea for the show when Urban League officials asked him to help find employment for young Negroes. The newspapers were full of want-ads, but only one-seventh of ghetto families see a paper, while two-thirds have TV sets...
...ability to keep his mouth shut about Commerce's many vacancies in top jobs. His reward was not only appointment last May as full-fledged Secretary-youngest in the department's history-but also a rising role in such Administration efforts as attracting business interest in slum problems, trying to end the long copper strike (which has caused an increase in imports of the metal), patching up L.B.J.'s tattered ties with big business...
From Home to Office. Working with such blue-chip clients as Alcoa, Dow Chemical, U.S. Steel and U.S. Gypsum, Tishman researchers have devised such cost savers as movable wall panels for faster changes in floor plans, noise-stifling floor-assembly systems, prefabrication techniques for kitchen-bathroom cores used in slum rehabilitation. Having built $630 million worth of structures across the U.S.-everything from a Philadelphia industrial park to Los Angeles' Sheraton Wilshire Motor Inn-the company also has accumulated a salable store of insight into construction intricacies. For a consulting fee equal to 1% of the total cost, says...