Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neckties Galore. A Republican, Welch has never been active in politics or civic affairs. Twenty-five years ago he took a spacious Colonial house in nearby Walpole. (The Welches have two married sons, three granddaughters.) Although he has an air of studied carelessness, Welch is actually something of a dandy, owns 18 suits, 18 pairs of slacks. He owns more than 150 neckties, all bows. Once, when the Welches were vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee, the house in Walpole was looted. Joe was horrified when he had to make out a list of his losses. "I cannot admit that I have...
Because of the large number of Negro students who have found it difficult to find rooms available in local boarding houses, the Civic Unity Committee of Cambridge is sending a special letter to all apartment holders requesting them to rent living space to these students...
...planning themselves. Abraham Chasanow, a $1,800-a-year clerk in the Navy's Hydrographic Office, found this out soon after he moved his family into a six-room, $36.50-a-month row house in Greenbelt, Md. in 1939. For 13 years Chasanow worked hard at his civic responsibilities. His hard work eventually led to serious trouble: last July the Navy suspended him as a suspected security risk. Chasanow, now 43, decided to fight the charges. He is still fighting them...
...Navy's Security Appeal Board had reversed the lower board, found him unfit for service. Smith said that, from his own review of the case, he agreed. Chasanow, refusing to give up, demanded a new hearing. This week the Navy reopened the case of Chart Distributor Abraham Chasanow, civic leader...
Every spring, various civic and educational groups look over the nation's classrooms and select some man or woman to be their Teacher of the Year. Last week in Los Angeles, such an honor went to a woman who has not taught for a decade. But the choice was not as strange as it might seem. To thousands of teachers across the U.S., Ethel Percy Andrus, 69, could claim the title any year...