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Chicago's sidewalk critics have their own ideas about art. Picasso's 50-ft. sculpture in the Civic Center Plaza, some say, looks like a baboon. As for the 53-ft. work by Alexander Calder to be placed near by, it appears, from the model, to resemble a butterfly with long feelers or a tulip bending its petals to earth. "Not at all," retorted the 74-year-old artist. "It's more like a flamingo." Even so, Calder has had to redesign part of the 10-ton carbon-steel structure. "This is supposed to be a stabile...
...example of investigative journalism at its most effective, but the Sun-Times could take only part of the credit. As in many recent journalistic attacks on mismanagement or unethical practice in Chicago, the Keane story was the result of an informal alliance between newsmen and a civic group with the deceptively benign name of the Better Government Association...
...HAYNES CIVIC AUDITORIUM. Metropolitan Opera of New York. Carmen, Tosca, and II Trovatore presented April 23, 23, 25, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $17.50-$3.50; call...
...mayor's do-nothingness, are as common in Los Angeles as smog, traffic jams and starlets. Cracks Jesse Unruh, former Democratic Speaker of the California Assembly and recent contender for Yorty's job: "Thank God we have a mayor who doesn't meddle in civic affairs...
Cambridge will elect at large nine city councillors and six members to the School Committee (the seventh member is the Mayor, chosen by the councillors from among themselves). Independents are hoping to defeat the fractured coalition of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's liberal good-government organization, and regain control of the two legislative bodies. The CCA won a narrow and contested victory at the polls two years...