In white, middle-income Forest Hills, N.Y., last week angry crowds booed the bulldozers that were breaking ground for a proposed low-income housing project that would bring numbers of blacks into the area (TIME, Nov. 29). One resident, Mrs. Ann Schachter, mother of two small schoolchildren, admits that she is embarrassed by the pickets. Still, she adds, typically enough: "I like to think of myself as a liberal, but the term doesn't seem to apply to me any more. I'm frightened." Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, who favors the project, says of the protesters: "They are afraid of what they see...
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