Word: civic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although united in the support for improved efficiency at the rent board, councilors said the differences that caused the original debate still exist. "The issue of rent control is one of ideology and not management efficiency," explained Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association. "I don't think there will ever be unanimity on that score...
...Civic boosters take pride in a healthy real estate market; it's great for Boston's image as "the livable city"--Mayor White's phrase. But if the cost of livability includes millions of dollars in fire damage and the title of America's arson capital--and the social pressures that title implies--Bostonians had better ask themselves if they can really afford...
...case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column. He also wishes "happy birthday" in print to entertainment figures, as in the March 10 greeting to former Studio Executive Newton ("Red") Jacobs, a leader in civic causes. That salutation was sadly underinformed. Jacobs died on Nov. 6, 1980. -By William A. Henry...
Last May, Denes with the help of about 60 paid and volunteer assistants, and financed by a $10,000 grant from the Public Art Fund, a private foundation that aids civic art projects, began hauling rocks off the site, which is a landfill intended for a development of offices and apartments called Battery Park City. They laid down 700 cu. yds. of topsoil in a 2-in. layer and hand dug 285 furrows. Then they sowed 6 bu. of hard, red spring wheat donated by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. While office workers watched skeptically from nearby towers or paid...
Anyone closely observing the state Democratic Convention in Springfield three weeks ago would understand why Harvard appointed Jim King. The platform elevated in front of the civic center arena held a limited number of seats, mostly reserved for candidates and their entourage and for big-wigs in the party. But one seat was reserved for King, who--at the request of state party chairman Chester G. Atkins--was floor manager for the weekend. King's official duties for the weekend involved mostly designing the physical layout and taking care of minor crises, such as credentials shortages...