Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penn ballroom one night last week, the city's 88-piece symphony orchestra, one of the best in the U.S., became for a little while a gay and lilting dance band. Waltzing to Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods, and applauding from the $100 boxes were civic and business leaders of Pittsburgh and their wives. The occasion was the TIME of Your LIFE Ball...
...have failed to make full use of the facilities that PBH offers. He cited a special committee for foreign and non-white students with housing problems. "It's hard to see how he could have missed all the signs directing students with problems to this committee and the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee," Hunt added...
...David Clark, secretary for the registry, collects data on each landlord who is reported discriminatory. "When we have enough information, we begin working with the discriminators," Mrs. Clark explained. Mrs. Catherine T. Johnson, executive director of the Civic Unity group, helps Mrs. Clark with difficult cases...
...Cambridge Civic Association, which opposed him for mayor, is strictly a businessman's outfit. Eddic feels it doesn't "care a hoot" for the little fellow who elects Sullivan. "They're like the local Republican party and I'm a Democrat." After being mayor less than a week, Sullivan announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor's Council. He's lost only one election in his life: running for County Clerk of Courts on the Democratic ticket in 1952, he was defeated in the GOP landslide. "But it took Ike to beat me," he beamed...
...years I was with the Arabian American Oil Co. in Saudi Arabia. I had long hoped to see an article such as yours. It is long, long overdue. But whose fault is it that the money is being squandered by men with no civic consciousness? The Americans in the Arabian American Oil Co. are responsible for King Saud's position, and, when there was a chance to start him off on the right track with his millions, we lacked the faith in ourselves...