Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comfortable Republican organization, normally outnumbered by more than two to one at the polls, to win itself an election if it could find a colorful, aggressive candidate. Instead, the G.O.P. bosses picked Acting New York City Postmaster Harold Riegelman, 60, a competent and colorless New York lawyer, active in civic affairs, who has been chief counsel of the Citizens' Budget Commission for the last 21 years. Riegelman, a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, did not immediately accept the nomination, but he declared earlier, "There is nothing a New Yorker should not drop to serve in the city...
Omaha reacted to the broadcast with a flood of indignant, civic-minded letters and phone calls. (There were also three threatening messages to Loughnane, which encouraged him to leave town for a brief vacation.) Local officials were embarrassed. Omaha's mayor, Glenn Cunningham, took to the air himself to insist that "Omaha is so clean you could eat off it as you would a tablecloth." But though public protests continued, by last week the gambling joints were still going full blast...
...also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While the Bulletin added readers with its quiet, unexcited coverage, the Inquirer picked up its own circulation by digging itself deep into Philadelphia civic life, in 13 years has almost doubled its circulation...
Under the stress of such 20th century imperatives as industrialization, swift-flowing traffic and civic cleanliness, many fine old institutions have been erased from the Mexico City scene. Gone are the dog sellers of Madero Avenue, the guitar-strumming trios who once worked the suburban bus lines, the evangelistas (professional letter writers) who held forth in a plaza near the presidential palace. The mosaic-tiled promenades in the parks, where boy met girl in evening roundabout strolls as stylized as ballet, are deserted; nowadays, boy blows auto horn summoning dark-eyed beauty to drive off to the nearest cabaret...
...committee refused the first charge of Dean Pollock but sustained the second. No teacher should be denied the legal protection accorded to all citizens under the Fifth Amendment, the committee opined, "but whereas the University has a civic duty to the free society of which it is an institutional part and whereas a member of the teaching profession in our society may be expected so to conduct himself that his activities meet the tests of responsible exercises of his rights of academic freedom, both in the classroom and elsewhere, the Committee finds that the second charge is sustained...