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Four of seven School Committee members support the motion to remove Frisoli. The four--supported by the Cambridge Civic Association in last November's election--pledged during the campaign to dismiss Frisoli...
...from the wreckers in 1968 for $800,000, then remodeled for around $10 million in only 15 months. Since its opening last fall, Heinz Hall has become the focal point of an energetic renaissance of Pittsburgh's artistic life. It is in regular use by the Pittsburgh Opera, Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet, Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, and its owner and principal constituent, the world-class Pittsburgh Symphony under Conductor William Steinberg...
...chairman of his alma mater's board of trustees, steered it into making a $196,000 investment in Xerox stock that is now worth $120 million, and left the university some $20 million, plus millions more in trust. Wilson encouraged others at Xerox to become involved in civic affairs. "Those in the inner city have derived little benefit from technology and no profit from it," he once noted. "Technological companies are at the center of social change and therefore have a responsibility." Joe Wilson not only did much to eliminate the drudgery of office work by having the imagination...
Three defeated independent candidates for the Cambridge City Council have filed suit in Middlesex Superior Court to overturn the election of a liberal. Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) majority to the Council...
Treacherous Position. The D.C. Federation of Civic Associations went to court, arguing that Volpe had not complied with a battery of federal requirements that must be met before a federally assisted highway can be built. The federation also protested against Natcher's pressure tactics. Last month it won a major victory before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia. By a 2-to-l decision, the court directed that the project be returned to Volpe for restudy...