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...memorandum released yesterday by Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the president for Civic and Government Affairs, states that apprentice electrician Charlie McNeil has failed to go through proper channels in seeking a raise...
...sufficient suburbia expanding into one continuous blur, as it does already along the northeast corridor from Boston to Washington. In these spreading suburbs, in all their diverse forms, will come a further test of American democracy. The auguries are good: the Harris survey points to a high incidence of civic concern, and the example of Evanston indicates that the combination of civic concern with a manageable governmental unit can work very well indeed. Suburbia may never re-create the New England town meeting, but it could be the locus of a new localism that will succeed in allowing its citizens...
...Although there were no Faculty members or deans present at last night's meeting, Gruson said he invited Charles Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Government Relations, and two other Faculty members to attend...
Besides his political activities, DiCara keeps busy with civic organizations. He is Cubmaster of Troop 66, a committee type at the Knights of Columbus, an assistant in the CYO program at St. Gregory's, and a member of the Hyde Park Most Precious Blood Catholic Young Adult Club...
...present. His battle with a contracting czar over the grafting of parking facilities onto Boston's tiny, jewel-like Public Gardens is neither as funny nor as deadly as it should be. Still, Edward Sheehan is expert at mapping the social-climbing customs of the local clans. Irish civic life-with its blend of the sacred and profane, its flouting of the separation between church and state -is the author's real subject. The Emmett Shannons of the world still have their Sister Philomenas teaching arithmetic: "Emmett, how much is four prophecies plus eight prophecies divided by three...