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...last March after it had been turned into a bomb factory by the Weathermen. According to the indictment, the Flint conspirators (and others the grand jury could not identify) formed a central committee to direct "focals"-cells of three or four activists-in the bombing of "police and other civic, business and educational buildings throughout the country...
...police arrived at the Torres home a few minutes later, and the sergeant was charged with firing a weapon inside the city limits-a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of $100-and released under his own recognizance after pleading not guilty. Unchastened, Torres appeared at a civic celebration at the American Legion Hall the next day. Wearing a big smile and carrying his baby, he waded through a crowd of well-wishing American Legionnaires, then waited as his attorney, Charles Weltner, made a plea for contributions...
Alwyn Lee was a newspapermanly and at length with Vanderwicken aboard one of his five jet planes, in his office and over lunch at the Ford "Glass House" headquarters in Dearborn. Those interviews were bolstered by many others as TIME correspondents across the U.S. talked to business, political and civic leaders in their various territories, and sought out examples of enlightened-as well as unenlightened-corporate conscience and social awareness. The finished story was written by George Church, edited by Marshall Loeb and re-searched by Eileen Shields and Claire Barnett in his native Australia until 1939, when he joined...
...called democratic elections for representation to the directing boards of local CAP's were announced rarely did more than five per cent of the possible voters turn out. And when representatives of the poor did try to work with members of the political power structure and social and civic organizations, friction over priorities resulted more often than "consensus...
Last week an American archaeologist disclosed that he had stumbled on the locale of Socrates' trial in new excavations just north of the ancient Athenian marketplace and civic center. Professor T. Leslie Shear Jr. of Princeton University and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens identified the area as the site of the Stoa (or portico) of the Basileus. As the No. 2 man in the nine-man elected Athenian hierarchy, the basileus often acted as the city's chief magistrate. It was in this capacity that he presided over the Athenian judges who ordered Socrates...