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...Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty is not a man to shirk his civic duty. There he was in front of city hall, amiably lying on a plank supported by two chairs, while a magician hovered nearby. Then the magician slowly removed each chair, leaving the Mayor apparently suspended in midair. The reason for all the levity was an "Academy of Magical Arts" day, proclaimed to promote the cause of magic in L.A. Sam certainly rose to the occasion. "There's often a need for magic in politics," he said. "Why, as mayor, you have to have the ability...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, said recently that Harvard was letting the City of Boston use the stadium "under the same conditions as last year," which included...
Shattered Tradition. The Republicans scored several notable upsets. Delaware's Charles L. Terry Jr., at 68 the nation's oldest Governor, was defeated by Republican Russell Peterson, 51, who surged ahead after Terry suffered a heart attack. A civic activist and Du Pont employee, Peterson is a rather dull, determined organizer. Arizona's one-eyed Republican Governor Jack Williams, 59, ran a repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship...
...Francisco, more than 1000 1000 demonstrators burned a U.S. flag at Civic Center Plaza and applauded a pig as their presidential candidate...
...forces that make New York an increasingly unlivable city. Under Lindsay, the parks have been made into attractive recreational centers, with cafes and musicales and bicycling on roadways that are closed to cars on weekends and holidays. Air pollution has been cut slightly, and the level of design in civic architecture has been raised. Plans are being pushed through for a great network of new subways, and the grandiose, frequently destructive schemes of the expressway builders have, for the most part, been restrained from running great swaths of concrete through residential areas...