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Newt's early proposals revealed the Gingrich paradigm: civic progress on a tight budget. One day when he was 10, he told his mother he was going to the library and instead took a bus to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to lobby city and state officials about building a zoo. He pressed his cause for the next two years, with arguments that echo eerily 40 years later. "A few minutes' conversation with Newton leaves an awed adult with a flying start toward an inferiority complex," reporter Jace Bennett wrote in the Harrisburg Evening News. "Don't you know an African lion costs...
...races about the city, often daring the devil by leaving off his yellow star, he sees clearly that two kinds of disintegration are occurring. And that one of them, the falling apart of German military strength, will not happen soon enough to prevent the second, the collapse of Hungarian civic morality, from grinding to completion...
Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55, Kathleen L. Born, Katherine Triantafillou and Davis have been endorsed by the progressive Cambridge Civic Association...
...would like to see Harvard purchase the D.U. building, which is prime Cambridge real estate, and use the facilities to provide office space to some of the many civic-minded and beneficial undergraduate organizations which currently don't have a place to meet. We hope that other final clubs will soon suffer the same fate...
Chapman herself took a moment to encourage all of her audience members to participate in their communities, through civic action such as voting...