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...from Alabama last year. He wants to build a reproduction of the Fort Concho hospital and install the elementary school there, tearing down the school that now stands in the middle of the old parade ground. The old fort buildings will be occupied by a fine arts museum, by civic groups and even lawyers' offices. But Vaughan wants to remove the outward appearances of the 20th century-the asphalt streets and overhead phone lines, for example-and bring back nearly everything except the bugles and the intense boredom the soldiers suffered 100 years ago when they were not banging...
...support--flying Laker Airways and carrying drums as hand baggage to cut down on costs. When the Police concluded their first proper American tour in Los Angeles in May, 1979, they turned down a $12,000 offer to play a second night at the 3,300-seat Santa Monica Civic in order to perform at Madame Wong's, a small restaurant in LA's Chinatown which only months before had changed its entertainment policy from Polynesian dancers to local unsigned bands...
...Lamb believes the African officials actually want "advocacy journalism"--to harness the independent Western press for their own purposes of nation-building. "Like the mayors of small towns in the U.S., African officials want us to cover the opening of a civic center and ignore...
...well as the expansion of the magazine division (MONEY in 1972, PEOPLE in 1974, DISCOVER in 1980). He presided over the demise of LIFE in 1972 and proudly participated in its rebirth in 1978. With all that, he found time to devote his formidable talents and energy to civic concerns, most notably as founder and co-chairman of the National Urban Coalition, fellow of the Harvard Corporation and vice chairman of the New York Public Library. Heiskell began his career here as a journalist. In 1937 he was named LIFE'S first medicine and science editor, after a stint...
...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the nation's oldest municipal political party, will celebrate its 35th anniversary next week with a party organizers are billing as a reunion of legendary city political figures, many of whom have not been close politically for 15 years...