Word: civic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner-operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...McGovern must draw support from both major elements of the City. He is endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association and will need a substantial number of "number one" votes from the CCA areas to win. We believe that McGovern could eventually emerge as one of Cambridge's most creative public officials and that giving him a "number one" vote would be the most constructive use of the ballot this year...
Perhaps a more important question is which of the City's two major political powers will gain from the change. Currently, the City Council and school committee are almost equally divided between candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association and the so-called independents. (The independents hold a 5-4 majority on the Council; elected members of the school committee are split 3-3, chairs the committee and throws the majority...
...opposing the change with every resource at its command--a good indication that supporters of the civic association feel they have a great deal to lose if PR is tossed out. A look at recent voting figures tells why. The bulwark of the CCA's support lies in Wards 7 and 8--the Brattle Street area--and in city elections, CCA candidates poll only about 40 to 45 per cent of the total vote. With PR, that's good enough to elect respectable delegations to both the Council and the school committee. Under a plurality, only the strongest...
Political power in the Council is on a delicately balanced scale. Councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association--a group largely composed of people from the Brattle Street area--hold four seats, including the mayor's chair. The independents--those unendorsed--have the other five...