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...Micro Devices, an early semiconductor manufacturer, in the dining room of his home in 1969. Today he owns houses in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles and in Malibu, and has a Bentley, a Ferrari and a Rolls-Royce. A year ago, Sanders rented San Francisco's Civic Center to treat 7,000 workers to a $350,000 party. Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell owns two yachts: the 41-ft. Pong, which he has lent to a friend, and the 44-ft. Sea Rat, which he uses himself...
...author's view of community and civic ethics has roots in Talmudic law; her images of evil spring from Jewish folklore and mysticism. These influences get their longest airing in a novella with the intimidating title Puttermesser and Xanthippe. The former is a lawyer in New York's department of receipts and disbursements; the latter a female golem, an artificial being that Puttermesser fashioned from potting soil. With Xanthippe's aid, the civil ser vant becomes mayor and turns the city into a Utopia. Unfortunately, it is the nature of golems to turn against their creators. Xanthippe...
What inspires such inventiveness? Something loftier than dollars. Vengeance? Civic duty? It is not surprising to learn that Australia has a subway, being down under, but can that lovely country have possibly reached the stage of mural riot that rapes New Yorkers every rush hour? No. There must be some holy altruism in Mr. Shuttleworth. Unlike other inventors, he is not giving the world what it never had before, he is restoring it to its origins. (One wonders, in fact, if there really is a Mr. Shuttleworth. His name is suspicious; it has a subway...
...conservative Independent faction of the City Council claimed two major victories over the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) last night, electing Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci as mayor and taking long-awaited steps toward weakening the city's controversial ordinance prohibiting the conversion of rent-controlled housing to condominiums...
...civic groups which earlier opposed the expansion project gave their support to MGH yesterday after the hospital agreed to modify its original plan...