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...traditional liberal-conservative split on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee between members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and independents may be threatened by a third slate this fall. Daniel Crane, a local lawyer and son of the kite Edward Crane, long-time Cambridge mayor, has said that he may run for the 9-member governing body under a moderate pro business...
Currently, the council is weighing two separate but similar changes to zoning laws. One is sponsored by Councilor David E. Sullivan of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the other by William Noble of the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition...
...know," says J.R., 25, an engineering student from the University of Massachusetts. "I missed some concerts this year." He is standing in a very chilly line outside the Civic Center auditorium in San Francisco, where in something like five hours the Dead will go onstage. J.R. is making what sportswriters call a great second effort to get serious about college, he says, his first effort having been stopped for no gain by, in part, too many Dead shows. The reward he gave himself for industrious scholarship this semester was to hitchhike across the continent, with little cash and no tickets...
Lacy and Hanks gradually won converts, including Presidents Nixon and Ford. Among the more conspicuous results of the continuing effort at NEA: two agencies, NASA and the Labor Department, now have a corporate identity with distinctive logotypes and uniform graphics; the U.S. Government occasionally holds design competitions for important civic works, a practice it generally has frowned on for almost two centuries. And, equally important, at the * instigation of the present NEA chairman, Frank Hodsoll, President Reagan elevated the prestige of the good-design movement in the Federal Government by establishing quadrennial presidential awards for design excellence...
...distortions. "They might as well have put us all in white sheets," says Richard Belcher, a reporter who covered the case for WAGA-TV. His station, a CBS affiliate, will respond with a half-hour discussion show following the movie. In addition, a group of more than 70 civic leaders has petitioned the network for free national air time to challenge the film's veracity...