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...August 15, 1974, two young men were shot to death on Mead Street. The killings followed months and months of harassment of the Price family by gangs of white youth. Mrs. Clorae Everteze, Cambridge Civic Unity Committee, Mr. Alvin Thompson, Special Assistant to the city Manager for Community Affairs and Councilwoman Graham made numerous pleas to the present and former City Manager to do something so that the Price family might live in peace...
...members of the Boston Community Media Committee, a group founded six years ago largely to promote more sensitive coverage of minority-group affairs. More important than the statement, the executives agreed to downplay any incidents of violence. "We went about it from the standpoint of our civic responsibility," recalls Lamont Thompson, New England area vice president for Westinghouse Broadcasting. "We made a very strong commitment to the mayor that although we would cover the totality of the news, there would be no inflammatory material, and unpleasant incidents would be written up judiciously...
Died. Lawrence V. Kelly, 46, prescient, uncompromising director and founder of the Dallas Civic Opera; of cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. One of the most influential and highly respected figures in American regional opera, Kelly, who also co-founded and directed the Lyric Theater of Chicago and the Performing Arts Foundation in Kansas City, shaped his companies to perform a repertory of unusual, rarely done works and to showcase fresh imported talent. Outrunning the Met, the quick impresario arranged the U.S. debuts of Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Teresa Berganza, and in 1954 brought Manhattan-born Maria...
...Cohen, a former Secretary of HEW, included: 1) setting fixed rates for doctors' charges for specific services, and 2) forcing public disclosure of the money that a doctor collects from federal and state medical-aid programs if the total exceeds $50,000. Finally, 16 major labor and civic groups resolved that, "Under no circumstances should funds for human social services be reduced...
...also makes an effort to join as many community and social groups as possible; he is already a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Elks Club, the Portuguese-American Civic League, the Sons of Italy and the Malden Eagles. He also subscribes to a couple of Jewish news magazines...