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...Arkansans kept up their wooing even after the bride was won. Once Nucor and Yamato picked Blytheville for the $230 million mill, the town chose eight civic leaders to travel to Japan at public expense to see what more could be done. Shortly after ground was broken for the plant in 1987, tempura and stir- fried dishes were on the menu at the Holiday Inn and townspeople were flocking to seminars on Japanese culture and business...
...Crimson players grabbed a banner from the stands that read "Harvard Crimson, 1989 NCAA Champions." They skated over to the small section of Harvard fans, a group of about 1000, the only noisy people in the St. Paul Civic Arena...
...pillars of American civic righteousness are here: the YWCA choir, the Boy Scouts, the 4-H club, the church-sponsored floats, even the pom-pom girls strutting their stuff to the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again. It could, really, be any All-American small town putting on an Independence Day parade on any village green. Except that this truly is, in the strict anthropological sense, a village, and the green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled...
...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) yesterday endorsed eight candidates for City Council, kicking off its campaign for a council majority--which it has not held since...
Residents of the neighborhood groused that they didn't want to put up with visiting busloads of crime buffs. Italian-American organizations argued, somewhat illogically, that by designating the house, the Government would be honoring Capone, thus defaming their ethnic group. Said Robert Allegrini, executive director of the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans: "We shouldn't be haunted by Capone's ghost 50 years later." Daunted by the furor, Levell withdrew his proposal last week, explaining, "I still feel the house is historically significant, but not at the cost of hurting the Italian- American community...