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...civic officials almost automatically join the jovial, do-gooding Rota ry Club, but in Davis, Calif...
...nation, a persuasive individual who can explain his means and ends in ways that will move people to support him. In private life, the people who have the jobs most nearly comparable to the U.S. President's are those who head corporations, banks, universities, labor unions and large civic or public service institutions...
...headed his company for ten years, and has given a great deal of time to commissions dealing with crime and delinquency, racial and religious discrimination and world hunger. Among the other chief executives who merit consideration by reason of experience, intelligence and conspicuous success in business and civic affairs are Deere & Co.'s William Hewitt, 61; Du Font's Irving Shapiro, 59; and Sperry Rand's J. Paul Lyet...
...children in academies because they are as upset by a loosening of academic standards and a lack of discipline in the public schools as they are about race. "They are trying to re-create the society they knew before," says David Nevin, research director of the Lamar Society, a civic-minded group of liberal Southerners that is studying the private schools. "A lot of them say that this is the kind of school I went...
...When Boettiger went into the Army in World War II, Anna returned to the White House, where F.D.R. found her company more relaxing than that of her tireless mother Eleanor. Divorced in 1949 by Boettiger, who later committed suicide, Anna married Dr. James Halsted in 1952 and devoted her civic energies to women's rights and racial justice...