Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawing boards hold greater changes. Beginning in early 1963, Chicago will build a 32-story, $67 million Civic Center. Using his familiar materials of glass and steel, Chicago Architect Mies van der Rohe has designed a 30-story. $50 million U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building. Starting from scratch, the University of Illinois will build a completely self-contained campus for its Chicago division that will eventually be used by 9,000 students...
According to Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, the MTA's operating budget and the expense of changing sites have been crucial factors in the refusal to sell the land. In the past few years, however, MTA operations have extended more and more to the south, thus making Cambridge inconvenient as a major storage area...
...should inherit the fiefdom of slain Dictator Rafael Trujillo. With so much passion involved, it was surprisingly bloodless. But so long as it was unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...spokesmen. For in this act, the Catholic Cardinal took the lines on liberality, conscience as against law, and warm tolerance; the Protestant and the liberal joined in the moral lines, upolding the written law. The Catholic pointed out the hypocrisies in the present confused system of federal, state, and civic gambling laws, and help up a case not simple but complex. In his theology, he said, men are free to gamble if they choose; and he may have been hinting that he failed to see why his conscience should be bound by other people's moral requirements, and that perhaps...
...begins to roll. A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one side was the middle-roading, anti-Trujillo National Civic Union (U.C.N.), backed by an aroused civilian populace that went on strike to support it. On the other was Trujillo's powerful armed forces, under General Pedro Rodriguez Echaverria...