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...second year in a row, hundreds of civic organizations in conjunction with the Metropolitan District Commission are planning to clean up 34 miles of the banks of the Charles River...
...tapping of congressional telephones by federal agents can only be a contemporary phenomenon, a creation of the confluence of modern electronics and widespread civic protest. Right? Well, hear Oklahoma Congressman William ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray: "The Secret Service watchfulness over the conduct of the Congressmen and public men began under Theodore Roosevelt and was nearly as bad under Wilson. They had my telephones tapped so long as I was in Congress." The words are from Murray's memoirs; he served in the House from...
...platform, Hoving and the civic dignitaries droned out their genial platitudes while Vaillancourt waded to and fro beneath them, imprinting more QUEBEC LIBRES on his fountain. Now and then, he advanced to the mikes and cameras at the pool's rim to explain in loud and broken English his rage at "compromises," which, he claimed, Halprin and the Redevelopment Agency had pressed on him. Defacement? "I am not defacing my sculpture." Did he repudiate it? "No, no. It's a joy to make a free statement. This fountain is dedicated to all freedom. Free Quebec! Free East Pakistan...
...crushing blow to civic pride fell when William Ford (brother of Henry) announced that he would move his football Lions to suburban Pontiac. Only the certain wrath of city officials keeps J.L. Hudson Co. from shutting its main department store, which suffered $9,000,000 worth of pilferage last year. "We would close the downtown store in a minute if we could do it without being crucified," admits one Hudson executive. With mordant humor, a banner at a recent press-club banquet asked: WILL THE LAST COMPANY TO LEAVE DETROIT PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS...
...proper noun, a book about Chicago remains, beyond any mistaking, a book about Chicago. The essential juices of the place somehow force any author to write with a special accent about the only city on earth where the likes ol Big Bill Thompson and Al Capone could coexist as civic leaders. In Chicago, there is indeed a certain interchangeability between politics and other lines of work. "The Hawk," Mike Royko writes, "was the outside lookout man at a bookie joint. Then his eyes got weak, and he had to wear thick glasses, so he entered politics...