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Miami Beach-an island that can easily be closed off against mischief -thus becomes the first city since Chicago in 1952 to play host to both party conventions. The city is not exactly ecstatic over the honor. Only some vestige of civic duty (and whiff of profit) carried the motion in the city council by a scant 4-3 vote to invite the Republicans. The loyal opposition included the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Relations Board, who fear a seven-week encampment of antiwar protesters spanning the time from the Democratic opening on July 10 to the scheduled Republican...
...number lit up on the indicator. "When I saw that 20 light up," says Rauscher, "I knew I had from one to 20 seconds to think about what I was going to do." He decided to ask Hughes for a donation to his favorite charity, PONCHO (Patrons of Northwest Civic, Cultural and Charitable Organizations), which raises money by auctioning donated items. Rauscher never saw the Invisible Man, but he did see a guard, who sent him to a man on the 19th floor, who sent him to a third man on the 20th floor, who gave him an address...
...driving force behind the changes is the John F. Kennedy Library Center--and the mood it has created among Harvard Square businessmen, residents and civic groups approximates future shock...
...task force of Cambridge civic leaders, businessmen, and residents has been poring over the forms such related structures might take for the past month, and will report their proposals to the Kennedy Corporation and I.M. Pei, architect for the Center, by July...
...Peter Salmon of the University of Alberta, who has lost five of his 120 patients, announced that he would do no more bypasses until all data on their value have been thoroughly reviewed. Officials at Ottawa Civic Hospital, meanwhile, stopped all obesity operations nine months...