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Plea for Reason. In a sort of civic confiteor, the President acknowledged: "I recognize that a great number of our young people are concerned about the fact that in our great cities the air is dirty, that in some places the water is polluted, that there aren't enough parks, that education is inferior, that health is inadequate, that there is alienation between the races and between the generations." All these needs, he promised in almost biblical cadences, can and will be satisfied: "I want this nation to be at peace, and we shall be. I want...
...leadership in helping to solve the social problems of our time. We realize that for corporations to exercise this leadership they must continue to prosper and to grow and to be profitable investments to their stockholders. But to stop there is to stop short of the moral and civic response required of the leaders of industry by the present crisis in our social order. There are battles to be waged against racism, poverty, pollution and urban blight, which the Government alone cannot win; they can be won only if the status and power of American corporate industry are fully...
...executive board of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a local good government group whose members have generally supported the manager, met last night to discuss the manager's position. After the meeting, one CCA councilor commented, "It was obvious that the CCA executive board isn't happy with the prospect of seeing Jim Sullivan fired. We don't know exactly what we'll do, but we're likely to be in for a dogfight...
Pour and Search. They chose a novel format called the charrette, a kind of civic group therapy in which all parts of the community, assisted by outside experts, are encouraged to pour out their complaints and to work together in search of specific reforms. Developed two years ago for an urban education project at Ohio State University's School of Architecture, the charrette* depends on the constant interplay of ideas. Its most important aspect is the participation of people normally outside the decision-making process. When the concept was imported to York by the city's Community Progress...
...need for dogs," said another. For their part, the two attending policemen took the lambasting fairly calmly, admitting that there was a "100 percent breakdown in communications between police and segments of the community"-meaning the blacks. Discrimination was charged in virtually every sector of civic life...