Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Considering the number of agencies concerned with housing problems, each exercising different methods of control, it seems that a central registry would have great merit," Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, pointed...
...document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order of Sanitary Merit and the Order of June 13 (created by Rojas to commemorate the day he took power in 1953). The next step is up to the Colombia Supreme Court, which is studying the evidence and could add a prison term...
When Mayor McNamara welcomed the Cambridge Civic Symphony on the occasion of its debut in Sanders Theatre last night, he voiced the justifiable pride of a Cantabridgian in this important even for the community. As President Pusey, who followed the Mayor, observed, civic symphonies are spreading throughout the country, and Cambridge, as a "center of high civilization" has been long overdue for one of its own. To everyone's relief and pleasure, the orchestra proved in its first concert to be a very fine one, capable of handling major works in an assured and professional fashion...
...next concert will be a special children's concert in Sanders this Saturday afternoon, an indication that the Orchestra is already taking on various community responsibilities. Cambridge can look forward with satisfaction to the many benefits and possibilities offered by a civic orchestra, and be grateful for such an excellent start under Mr. Manusevitch...
Students in all three fields share an integrated curriculum for part of the first year in an effort to demonstrate the close inter-connection of the practice of architecture with civic and social problems, and of city planning with aesthetic design. Indeed the separation into distinct departments is a reflection of the high specialization in civic design in this country; in many foreign countries the distinction between architect and urbanist is considered artificial and dangerous in its encouragement of an overly technical and mechanical approach--planners computing the incremental cost of the necessary cubic feet of air per average inhabitant...