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JORDAN HALL. Bejamin Zander conducting the Boston Civic Symphony. Dvorak: Symphony No. 6, and Vorisek: Symphonia in D Major. Tickets...
...weeks ago, Lindsay went out and tested the water in the boroughs by going in front of various civic groups on quasi-political missions. From all reports, the soundings were not too good...
...Committee had voted over a year ago not to reinstate Frisoli as superintendent of schools. Unlike Fitzgerald, the four members who voted against Frisoli a year ago were members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
...workers and farmers in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, is the only four-year college within 50 miles of Birmingham that admitted blacks before 1967. Now an open-door, recently-accredited college for black Alabama high school graduates, it educates most of Birmingham's black teachers and civic leaders. All of its top level administrators and all but 30 of its teaching staff are black. One of 90 private black colleges still operating in the United States, Miles has no endowment, but survives entirely on foundation grants, Federal government aid, and contributions from private citizens...
TIME is devoting much of the observance of its 50th anniversary to a study of Congress and its decline. Already TIME has held four regional meetings at which scholars, members of Congress and civic leaders discussed the problem and possible remedies. What is really at stake, explained Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan, is "whether a democratic society puts some value on collective wisdom as opposed to centralized individual wisdom, and whether the Congress can make a more constructive contribution to public policy...