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Such changes will electrify the economy of the Harvard Square area. But a number of Cambridge residents, civic groups, and even businessmen are warning of a definite potential for catastrophe...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Future Shock | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

...liberal U.S. attitudes shrank the market for "attractions" such as divorces, abortions, prostitution and sex shows. "We simply could not compete with upper California," says one Tijuanan, only partly in jest. Also, the town grew rapidly in size (from 160,000 in 1960 to 450,000 today) and in civic pride, which could not tolerate the sincity image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Respectable Tijuana | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...wish to be totally free, and are concerned solely with their personal vendettas against the rest of the world. Until Super Fly, the hardened Chester Himes cops of Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue were the only colorful heros who also possessed social conscience and civic sense (though both efforts were sabotaged by, respectively, clumsy and cutesy direction...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Super Fly | 8/22/1972 | See Source »

...tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere monumentality of the building itself. To Florence's civic leaders, there was only one choice: Henry Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dialogue in Stone | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

Married. Abraham Ribicoff, 62, senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut, former state Governor and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Kennedy; and Lois Mell Mathes, 50, Miami civic leader; she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1972 | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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