Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro-vote drive, said President King, the S.C.L.C. will seek help from all Negro churches in the South, try to raise $200,000 the first year from churches, labor unions, foundations, civic organizations. First step ahead: a S.C.L.C. meeting in mid-September to set up the drive's central headquarters in Atlanta...
...batches of 4,000 volunteers were at work in the Rif. Rising at 5 a.m., they walked to their work sites and worked through till noon, with only a half-hour break. Lunch over, the volunteers moved on to a different kind of task: classes in the ABCs of civic responsibility. And out of each group, the brightest 80 were sent off to a special camp where the nation's top politicians lectured them on such matters as "the rights of a citizen" and "the democratization of Morocco...
...sense, it was only natural that Nashville should avoid violence. Relations between the races are unusually good: there is a Negro on the school board, and there are two on the city council. Through meetings of various civic groups, many citizens have been well prepared for the big change. Furthermore, officials decided to go slow by integrating only the first grade this year. But however calm registration day, there were ugly rumblings through the rest of the week...
...Road Ahead. In Foleyet, Ont., after proud townsmen had happily celebrated the opening of the first road to lead out of their community, and one civic orator had pompously puffed: "It will be no time at all until we feel the real impact of this development," thieves broke into the Hudson's Bay Co. store, lifted its safe and $4,500, escaped in a stolen truck on the new road...
...Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than 100 real-life problems involving alcoholism, civic intrigue and second marriages. This week the problem was divorce. Ma's indomitable spirit and homely wisdom have glowed through 6,207 treacly episodes, totaling 93,105 minutes, establishing Ma as the undisputed queen of soap opera...