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...fraternal and corporate entities support the effort. There are, for example, the U.S. Jaycees and Jayceetes. Every representative tall, trim, impeccably groomed. $2.1 million. The Distributive Education Corporation of America--that's high school kids who sell things, and are hoping, their leader tells Jerry, to "develop a civic consciousness which allows our members to use their marketing skills for worthy projects. We really believe," he adds, "in the future of America." The Roller Skater Rink Operators Association of America, who have been hosting some $3 million worth of skate-a-thons. The Brunswick Corporation, (which, according to its president...
...other days, cramming City Hall to demand that Cambridge adopt a rent control law. In 1970, despite Sullivan's opposition, they succeeded, and the law has remained in place since, the single most divisive issue in the city. Support for it in recent years has come from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), now the local liberals but once a "good government" coalition that included Mickey the Dude...
...back from his forehead, and the rest is snipped short. His black-rimmed glasses give him a slightly spooked, owlish demeanor. Helms walks with a relaxed spring, his bearing loose and eager if not quite vigorous. His appearance is scrupulously uneccentric, clean and blue-suit respectable, more like a civic-minded small-town bank president than a U.S. Senator...
...hurry to relinquish it and return to the barracks. He has started to shed some of the military image; in-place of the camouflage fatigues and jaunty beret that were his trademark in the early post-revolution period, he now occasionally wears well-tailored suits. The modest Honda Civic in which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz limousine flanked by motorcycle police with wailing sirens. A hairdresser comes to his suite in the Israeli-built Executive Mansion each morning to fluff up his luxuriant Afro...
DIED. Roger Baldwin, 97, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong champion of individual freedom; of heart disease; in Ridgewood, N.J. The patrician but plain-living Baldwin worked as a probation officer, college professor, common laborer and executive secretary of the Civic League of St. Louis before joining with two New York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John...