Word: civics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social position derived from money tends to decrease as one's income approaches the higher brackets. Among Boston's Brahmins, what counts most is family history, civic activities and cultural connections. In Kansas City's gilded Mission Hills section, it is country clubs and friends: the closer one can get to "the local and regional-legend rich" - Royals Owner Ewing Kauffman, Hallmark Cards Founder Joyce Hall and the bank-owning Kempers - the higher one's esteem...
...queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...
...stickup men convicted. "After three or four continuances of a case," says Patrick Healy, the executive director of the National District Attorneys Association, "unless you're really a devoted witness, you'll kiss it off. After all, what's in it for you? This business of civic pride goes so far. And the smart defendant and the smart defense lawyer will delay a case to death...
Westminster still controls most important functions, notably the assignment of families to public housing units, which was a major issue in the civil rights campaign. But even with its limited jurisdiction, the council has to reach agreement on such everyday civic responsibilities as park maintenance and refuse collection. It has also headed off some potentially explosive political problems. Last March, for example, the Irish Independence Party, a Catholic group, began pressuring to have the precolonial "Derry" reinstated as the city's official name, a move certain to have aroused widespread Protestant hostility. The council, guided by the SDLP, voted...
Today the city government is still there, housed in an imposing modern edifice. So are the markets, in their original buildings-but only after a lengthy, civic tug of war and some shrewd, imaginative thinking about the inner city of Boston. Last week's opening of the North Market marked the completion of the third and final stage of a $30 million, 6.5-acre renovation project. With some 30,000 people visiting the area daily, the market is almost outdrawing Florida's Disney World. Says Terry Rankin, head of the Boston Society of Architects: "The danger...