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Brain Trust. Reporting on his first 100 days as leader, Wallace, 41, spoke for 3½ hours while protected by a phalanx of 100 Muslim guards. To underscore the new tolerant line, the Muslims had invited a host of white civic and church leaders to the rally, although few showed up. Since Wallace's speech included several appeals for white money, the Muslims' new liberalism may have as much to do with finances as social enlightenment...
...each project, a salaried tenant-manager, chosen by his neighbors, heads a staff of paid workers and volunteers who do everything from mowing the lawns to patrolling the halls. Besides providing jobs, the system has led to reduced crime, cleaner and greener surroundings, and a general upsurge of civic pride. The projects are not yet free of drug traffic, and some tenants still refuse to cooperate with the new management, but the Federal Government has begun to think about trying the idea elsewhere...
...Civic leaders have responded to the crisis with their customary combativeness. "This is a street fight," Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone told Mayor Abraham Beame at a budget strategy session. "You've got to put your opponents up against the wall." "You're right," responded the embattled mayor, pounding the table. Faced with a looming budget deficit of as much as $1 billion, as well as the immediate cash-flow pinch, Beame offered an $11.9 billion "crisis" budget for fiscal 1976 that would be balanced by laying off about 50,000 city employees, including police and firemen...
...Harvard right now--"I can't give $10,000, so I do this." As for the motivation behind alumni interest in seeing who gets in from the area, and their desire to play a role in who does, Simpson sees the drive as a blend of civic and old school pride as well as the desire to repay the school for pleasant memories and opportunities...
...what was more a bell-bottomed social occasion of the chic Estoril set than a serious political meeting. On Wednesday night, the Communists drew 60,000 in the May 1 Stadium. While vendors hawked red flags, buttons and pens, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal intoned: "We Communists appeal to civic duty and order...