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Crisscrossing the city, Menon sound trucks blared out the theme that Menon was a modern Marco Polo, spanning oceans and continents to defend India's interests all over the globe. But Menon himself scarcely concealed his contempt for constituents. At one gathering in a slum area, he stretched out on the platform behind the party functionary who was eulogizing his accomplishments and fell fast asleep. Awakened by applause, he scrambled to his feet and spoke a few words in English, which sailed right over his Hindi-speaking audience...
Directing Oakland's revival is Republican Mayor John C. Houlihan, 51, the son of a San Francisco cop. Houlihan's campaign to save Oakland goes back to 1952, when he became chairman of the city's halfhearted planning commission. Houlihan began fighting for public housing and slum clearance against the opposition of the city fathers and the Oakland Tribune, the conservative local paper owned by the family of then Senator William Knowland. But Houlihan was undismayed by the entrenched opposition, got some redevelopment projects under way, eventually won over his critics. Last year, with the backing...
...Oakland that Thompson has to give city councilmen daily reports of the breathless course of redevelopment. Oakland has finished, is building or is about to build projects costing some $750 million. Among them: 40 schools, two stadiums, $30 million worth of harbor improvements, two freeways costing $150 million, three slum-clearance projects totaling $74 million...
...View from the Bridge (Continental), like the drama by Arthur Miller from which it is adapted, is a grim and misguided attempt to make Pentelic marble of Brooklyn brick; to find in the moral slime of a slum episode the ink in which to write Greek tragedy as it was written in the golden age. Inevitably, the attempt fails; but the failure is impressive. The film, perhaps even more vividly than the play, demonstrates the Gnostic precept that when the seven deadly sins are counted, there is still one more. Its name is Ignorance, and it is as quick...
...film on housing, narrated in English, pictured Cuba's slums before the revolution as obviously poor places to rest, eat, and talk "when a man comes home from work." It also covered housing developments in construction (although not completed). The whole process was observed by two slum boys, one white, one Negro...