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TIME Magazine of Sept. 28 contained a gorgeous 12-page section of color photographs depicting the fantastic amount of construction which has overwhelmed New York City in the last five years. Page after page showed superb photographs of vast new skyscrapers, airline terminals, Lincoln Center, housing developments, slum clearance projects, power plants, big stores, all of which have transformed the face of our city. We congratulate TIME on a strikingly beautiful job of color printing, photography, writing and editing and research...
...meeting of NSM Sunday, students who had participated in the registration campaign called the experience "extraordinarily valuable" in learning first-hand some of the problems of urban slum areas, Miss Miller said. Many students also voiced surprise that the people they contacted were so appreciative of being approached personally to register...
Pineapple Juice. Democrat Inouye has another sort of tradition. Born in a Honolulu slum, he enlisted in the famed Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1943, won a battlefield commission and later a Distinguished Service Cross in Italy in a bloody action that cost him his right arm. A lawyer and a onetime (1954-58) majority leader of the territorial house of representatives, Inouye became Hawaii's first and only U.S. Representative in 1959 (the state will have two after this year). In Washington, Inouye has backed the Kennedy Administration all the way, taken enthusiastic care of Hawaii...
...Many People. All over town, living rooms, bedrooms and baths are being added at a rate to match the office boom. Slum clearance projects have been marching through Harlem and the Lower East Side; low-cost housing has been supplied by organizations along the lines of the cluster of 22-story cooperative apartment houses recently erected west of Eighth Avenue by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. But the middle class has not been served so well by private builders...
Join, Join, Join. No sooner had each boy been hit with his first-term bill ($1,307.50) than he was deluged with requests to rent sheets and refrigerators, teach slum kids and visit mental hospitals. There were endless tests, physical and placement, pep talks from coaches and proctors, two presidential teas, and tryouts for everything from the Crimson to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. There were endless forms to fill out, and endless appeals...