Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find fault with Perry Mason." Most pleasing of all was the tribute from Federal District Judge William B. Herlands. As he dismissed the jury, he told them: "The time has come for the Government to award a Distinguished Service Cross to those who perform outstanding acts of civic responsibility and patriotism, and you should be the first recipients...
Cambridge City Councilor Daniel J. Hayes charged yesterday that local politicians, civic groups, universities and boat clubs are opposing the imminent extension of the Mass. Turnpike into Boston because of traditional animosity to William F. Callahan, chairman of the Turnpike Authority. "It's basically the same old anti-Callahan fight." Hayes told the CRIMSON, "but they can't stop the road...
Thinking Big. Sometimes civic leadership and gung-ho spirit revive a dying place. The population of Clarksville, Mo., declined from 800 in 1940 to 338 in 1960. The town had no doctor or dentist. Three out of every four youngsters in each new crop of high school graduates departed for more promising places. But under the leadership of a local automobile dealer, Milton Duvall, a group of townspeople formed a development corporation with capital of $132,000. Its first project was a $50,000 medical center; dedicated in mid-1961, it quickly attracted a doctor and a dentist. Since then...
...invited one Sunday morning to render some reflections on a petty instance of civic corruption for the Columbia Broadcasting System, in a great cavern where nine of my fellow unemployed sat, each behind an office desk.'' Lacquered up with makeup that "would seem a little too much to Sadie Thompson," Kempton found the studio trying to put him at ease with a TelePrompTer, but "only private detectives conduct private conversations while looking fixedly at the person addressed and private detectives do not set their eyes on the subject's forehead." So he sat, "an actor...
...proselytize, the proposed law will grant major Protestant churches juridical recognition as religious groups, allow them to run their own schools and seminaries, print and distribute their own translations of the Bible, operate hospitals and cemeteries. The proposed law even affirms the right of all Spaniards to hold every civic office but that of chief of state, who must be a Catholic - as a British King or Queen must...