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...addition, he said he is speaking to civic groups several times a week to make sure the proposals will be translated into genuine reform...
...middle-aged ex-concert pianist and civic engineer, Sampson has worked with hypnosis in conjunction with psychologists and therapists for more than 25 years. For the last 15 years he has received clients in his modest Brookline apartment. In a series of five lessons, Sampson teaches his students "self-hypnosis", which is what he calls his hypnosis program. After the lessons Sampson says each client can hypnotize himself to achieve "self-embetterment...
...Vineyard will lose the seat that it has had in the Massachusetts legislature for 285 years. The islanders are distressed at the prospect of finding themselves, in the words of one angry writer to the Vineyard Gazette, "in the horrendous clutches of Taxachusetts" without representation. Rebels point out that civic anger on Martha's Vineyard is not to be lightly taken. The last time the island was denied direct representation was in 1692, when it belonged to New York; Vineyarders promptly seceded and joined Massachusetts...
...work, titled "A Directory of Significant 20th Century American Women," will contain profiles of 600 women drawn from suggestions by civil rights, women's, political, ethnic, civic, and other naitonal organizations, Smith said...
...branches seldom pool their information. As a result, intelligence is spotty. Despite all this, Thai troops are performing well, and field officers continue to fight the "other war"-that is, gaining village support. Along the Mekong River, army helicopters rain propaganda leaflets on disaffected villages. The government has devised civic ac- tion programs to rebuild damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people. But there remain deep misunderstandings. One deputy chief of a village still labeled "pro-Communist," after having been burned out by Thai police and rebuilt...