Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee to push the teaching in U.S. high schools and colleges of the facts about Communism was established by the Foundation for Religious Action in the Social and Civic Order and the American Political Science Association. It got an immediate endorsement from President Eisenhower. Said he: Our students "must be taught to discriminate between the American form of government and the Soviet form. When they have all the facts, I am confident they will make the correct choice...
...Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...
...Jose, Calif., rioting rock 'n' rollers routed 73 policemen, injured eleven people, did $3,000 worth of damage to a dance hall before they were evicted. Neighboring Santa Cruz banned rock 'n' rollers from civic buildings...
...hamlet is plunged into civic war over the question of who's lying-Fernandel, who wasn't there and swears that his son wasn't either, v. the unwed mother, who was there and moans that Fernandel's son was, too. Fernandel won't sell bread to his friends turned foes, and the scenes swarm relentlessly, with so many Proven-gal provincials running around like so many Provencal provincials with their bread cut off. The effect might be funnier if time and France's postwar moviemakers had not made stereotypes of them...
...Florida's easygoing capital of Tallahassee (pop. 42,000), the new-found Negro weapon of the bus boycott proved to have a sharp and painful double edge last week. For five weeks, while Negroes refused to ride segregated buses (TIME, June 18), Negro and white civic leaders tried to work out a solution. Despite some broad concessions by the all-white city commission, e.g., first-come-first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of races), the Negroes held out doggedly for complete abolition of segregation−or nothing. Last week, acknowledging an all too effective 60% loss...