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...DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis is expert, as always. But it is the kids themselves (recruited from the New York City streets) who give the ring of truth to this glossy rendering of Bel Kaufman's novel about a teacher's problems in a slum-area high school. THE THIEF OF PARIS. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a burglar in turn-of-the-century France, manages only to steal the picture, which, because of its disjointedness, just misses being worth the effort...
...year-old nurses' aide picketed Holyoke Center for several hours yesterday afternoon to protest what she called Harvard's "slum-lord tactics" in the operation of her apartment building...
...handsome, articulate lawyer with an outstanding record in the Ohio House of Representatives, has based a low-key campaign on the lackluster administration of Mayor Locher, 52, and the apathy toward ghetto problems at city hall that helped stir four days of rioting last year in the Negro slum district of Hough. Stokes's campaign advertising proclaims: DON'T VOTE FOR A NEGRO FOR MAYOR. Underneath, in smaller type, the ads urge: "Vote for a Man Who Believes in Cleveland, Carl B. Stokes." Figuring that he can count on East Side Negroes anyway, Stokes has concentrated his campaign...
...Negroes constitute only one-tenth of the city's population and-partly for that reason-have yet to mount a major rebellion on the scale of Watts or Detroit. Yet, like other ghetto dwellers, they have their grievances. In the Inner Core, as Milwaukee's Negro slum is called, unemployment is more than twice as high as in the historically German and Polish districts that surround it. Housing is decrepit in the Core, educational levels as low as in Harlem or Cleveland's Hough...
Compared with Stone's complex book, this slender first novel is barely more than a vignette, an Easter Sunday in a Pittsburgh slum. Eddie, a young Negro, returns from a year spent kicking the heroin habit in a Southern institution. Filled with tentative hope, he quickly finds that home has the same old tensions and temptations, that he is in the same old "black bag." In a foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding...