Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spaghetti & Soccer. A self-made shipping tycoon (estimated worth: $100 million), blue-eyed Achille Lauro first burst into Italian politics in 1952 when he was elected mayor of Naples. Since then he has spent an estimated $4,000,000 of his own money and run up the biggest civic debt in Italian history ($160 million), giving his fellow townsmen spaghetti, circuses, repaved streets, and a first-class soccer team. (Mayor Lauro cheerfully forked over $200,000 to sign up one Swedish soccer star for Naples.) The Neapolitan crowds love him; opposition politicians consider him a gold-plated clown...
...Husband based his survey on college records, the class yearbook, and a special questionnaire on job history, income, civic affairs and other aspects of the graduates' lives. Median income of those who replied...
...seemed a choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went on to cloak him with all the dignity and authority of a leading citizen. Few unscrupulous men have woven themselves so tightly into the business, social and civic fabric of a city...
Backers of the Seattle symphony were happy to negotiate with Beck for Teamsters' sponsorship of a radio program featuring Conductor Milton Katims. In return for a $5,000 donation (Teamster money) to Seattle's United Good Neighbors charity drive, Beck's civic leadership was cited as going "a long way toward making our town a good place in which to live and do business...
...Demolition of the worst 1,500 of New Orleans' 42,000 substandard buildings to make way for an eleven-acre civic center that will include, beside the new city hall, a Supreme Court building (due for completion this fall), a public library, a state office building and a civil court...