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What indeed was our criterion? The touchstone was civic or social impact...
...term city councilman in Yonkers, N.Y., he ran as the underdog for mayor in 1969 and won, the first Democrat to do so in 32 years. In two terms, the Fordham-educated lawyer cleaned up corruption, balanced the budget and restored Yonkers, his birthplace, to a semblance of civic health. Since his upset victory last year, which made him the youngest county executive in Westchester's history, he has laid plans for recycling garbage into energy and begun...
...father, the company's founder, as Hallmark's president. A civic-minded Kansas City booster, Hall has set up an inner-city training center for the poor and inexperienced and has also taken charge of a project begun in 1967 by his father-Crown Center, a privately financed $200 million redevelopment that is transforming 23 dilapidated city blocks into a handsome apartment, hotel, office and shopping complex...
...were chosen on the basis of their capability to achieve "significant civic or social impact," Time said in a press release yesterday...
...That power has not always been used wisely or in the public interest. Nor has it been used consistently. Investigative journalism, for instance, has run in cycles, flourishing most conspicuously in the first decade of this century, when muckrakers like Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell raged against civic corruption, social injustice and industrial abuses. There was some revival in the 1920s, during Teapot Dome and Prohibition, and again, with different stresses, during the Depression. World War II and the cold war created a sense of common goals in the nation, and had some pacifying effect on relations between...