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...terms are provided for noncompliance, but the order arms federal officials with sharp-bladed threats to wield: for builders, refusal of FHA and Veterans Administration financing for their projects; for banks, loss of FHA and VA mortgage business; for states and municipalities, loss of federal grants and loans for slum clearance and urban renewal...
...turn-of-the-century conservatism and his great bulk (247 Ibs), Republican Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, 46, is devastatingly described as "a fat old young man." Running for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Oren Long, Dillingham never had a chance against Representative Daniel Inouye, 38, slum child, war hero, first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent, New Frontiersman ("To be President-Kennedy's rubber stamp is an honor") and by far Hawaii's top vote-getter. If there had been any doubt, it vanished when the Honolulu Advertiser, of which the Dillingham family owns a hefty...
...prepare for "the next wave of industrial expansion." Building, one of Britain's most inefficient industries, will be overhauled by coordinating government construction, streamlining techniques and archaic codes. Public building, which accounts for nearly half of Britain's national investment program, will be accelerated, while lagging slum clearance and new housing construction will be speeded...
Hawaii. With elderly Senator Oren E. Long retiring, slum-born Democratic Congressman Daniel Ken Inouye, a Nisei, is competing for the seat against Benjamin Franklin Dillingham II, scion of Hawaii's most prominent family. Starting out way behind, Republican Dillingham narrowed the gap while Inouye was kept glued in Washington. But there still appears to be a bit of gap left...
...turns out, are a rogues' gallery of stupid, brutal and arrogant attendants. In self-defense the hero tries to decide who he is and what made him that way. A succession of sometimes awkward flashbacks shows a dismal flat in a dismal slum, a father dying of some unspeakable capitalist contagion, a mother playing around with her "fancy man," a burglary of no more importance than a raid on the cookie jar, a relentless agent of the law who brings the hero to what the picture plainly does not think is justice. In the end, given the chance...