Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slums from Harlem to Los Angeles. Muhammad's virulent anti-Americanism and antiSemitism, plus his elite corps of dark-suited, shaven-polled young "honor guards," has lifted him well beyond the run-of-the-street crackpot Negro nationalist groups. The Moslems are of rising concern to respectable Negro civic leaders, to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to police departments in half a dozen cities...
...after his German-born father established a furniture factory there. At 13 he was put to work in the factory, 16 years later was its general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund, the Chamber of Commerce, and football-boosting member of the governing board of Michigan State University (he holds an honorary M.S.U. doctor of laws degree and a gold-engraved lifetime pass to all M.S.U. athletic...
Pampered Pachyderm. Hannibal had to fend off hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
Castro ignored him. That night on TV, his favorite medium for lecturing the country, Castro said in a four-hour harangue that he had differences with Urrutia that were both "moral and civic." For a starter, Urrutia was drawing "exactly the same salary as Batista" ($10,000 a month), while all the Cabinet members had voluntarily taken a cut to $700. Urrutia was buying a $40,000 house, while "I have no house; I have bought no house."† Waving and tapping a yellow pencil, Castro stepped up the pace of the attack until his voice grew shrill and sweat...
...Harvard far behind. Good Harvardmen quickly raised an $11,350 fund of their own; soon it was known as the Lowell Trust, after the Lowell family treasurers, who began running it in their spare time during the Civil War. In 1922 the job fell to a modern and most civic-minded Lowell, astute Banker Ralph of the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. By last week, when he finally decided to hand the reins over to Harvard itself, the fund had lent $1,435,969 to 10,500 Harvard students, including eight who became college presidents,* two Massachusetts governors...