Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auer, 44, has long been active in civic and educational affairs. He has served as president of the Bronxville, N.Y. community fund, a trustee of the Taft School, president of the Bronxville, N.Y. Parent-Teacher Association, and is director and vice president of the New York State Citizens Committee for the Public Schools. Auer and his wife Carol are active in sports (tennis, skiing, swimming) and the parents of three children...
...career was not enough, and during the Depression, Adam Powell emerged as a Negro nationalist and a skilled leader. He helped establish a church relief program in Harlem, dished out a thousand free meals a day in the church basement, quickly became a civic mover and shaker. He early recognized and utilized the latent strength of Harlem, was able to force such commercial giants as Liggett Drug stores and Consolidated Edison to employ Negroes. When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every...
...ideas and inventions* pour forth. He talks of a vast redevelopment of Harlem's slums, a shopping center-mall in Dallas, a development project in Arizona that he hopes to make even bigger than Sterling Forest. Recently he submitted a plan to provide industrial Akron with a new civic center. One touch was characteristic. There would be a businessmen's luncheon club, but to reach it, businessmen would have to go through the art museum. Thus, says Dowling with a grin, "whether they want to be or not, they will be exposed to the finer things in life...
...trouble is that mounting civic pride has also stirred Morrilton to shell out more cash for new churches, sewers and an industrial-development fund, leaving little surplus for schools. Should the town not boost school taxes, it will have to drop the psychologist, art instruction, adult education and numerous other "frills." Last week some citizens seemed inclined to do just that. "Our town is too small for big, spectacular things," said one housewife. But other citizens were ready to pay at least a little more in taxes, retain some of the frills. Whatever the decision, Morrilton will never forget...
...small-town touch. It resisted the glamour of setting up offices in New York City, as most other cigarette companies did, stayed on in provincial Winston-Salem (pop. 118,000), where it employs one in every five workers, is the city's biggest booster and a major contributor to civic drives. From the company's red brick factories and its 22-story limestone office building, the tallest in North Carolina, the quick and pungent smell of tobacco drifts pleasantly over the city...