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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1970
Page
3
Jerry Jordan grows up in a Brownsville tenement amid rats roaches and squalor. The piece paints a bleak NYC slum environment and argues that such surroundings push youths toward crime unless they resist.
Highlights include events from 1215 to 1964 and a long dramatic obituary of Jerry Jordan a 21 year old heroin addict whose death from narcotism ends his failed rehabilitation effort. The piece mixes history with a stark real life tragedy set in Manhattan.
Phi Beta Kappa struggles with rising egalitarianism and pass fail trends as top students opt out or resist election. A national committee studies the issue while chapters report growing dissatisfaction, though overall membership remains strong with new chapters and more to join.
United Nations planning expert Richard May Jr predicts more than half the world will live in cities by century’s end, with 2,100 planned one million-person cities required. He says new cities would minimize congestion and health hazards and may allow work to be done at home, reducing private car use. Pearl Buck is noted as the only woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes in literature.
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