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...that includes the Seattle Art Museum's Modern Art Pavilion, the symphony and a repertory theater that counts 25,000 subscribers. The opera company, nearly as good as it is bold, puts on the complete Wagnerian Ring cycle in German and English every summer. In a burst of civic pride, voters last month approved a $19 million bond issue to build a second theater, a rehearsal wing for the opera and symphony and another art center that will house the Tutankhamun exhibition of Egyptian art in 1978. Now about the urban problems...
Seattle is a city that works-rand works very well -largely because it has a cadre of civic-minded businessmen who have become a kind of separate branch of government, willing to devote time and talent to improving the culture and commonweal. When one of these leaders has an idea, he has little trouble rounding up a dozen others and hammering out a plan of action...
...Anglo-French jet has been flying into Washington's Dulles International Airport for a year and a half, but New York had been closed to the plane under the pressure of local civic groups and politicians, who argued it was too noisy. The last barrier fell Oct. 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Port Authority's request to extend...
...sense, Jerusalem would again become a divided city, but there should be international guarantees against the erection of barriers to movement of people or goods from one sector of the city to another. Some major civic issues would be dealt with on a citywide basis, while many basic municipal services (recreational facilities, schools, zoning) would be the separate responsibility of each of Jerusalem's quarters. A number of the world's largest cities already operate in this manner; London, for instance, is a confederation of semiautonomous boroughs. Jerusalem's borough governments would be chosen by the various...
...city's master builder is J. Irwin Miller, a civic-minded industrialist and former president of the National Council of Churches who is sometimes called "the Medici of the Middle West." In 1939, Miller startled Columbus by choosing the great Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design a new building for Columbus' First Christian Church. But it was not until 1957 that Miller really shook up the old town. By then he was board chairman of his family's Cummins Engine Co. and was concerned about the difficulty of attracting talented young executives to Columbus. So he announced...