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...many Doers really exist? Politics is obviously full of activists. Beyond politics, a census of activists can only be suggested. Everyone knows someone who volunteers for messy civic chores, stubbornly advocates heretical ideas, won't conform to Kafkaesque organizations or autocratic bosses. Doers turn up as doctors who attack outdated treatments, teachers who think schools teach children to fail, corporate vice presidents who accuse their companies of being sclerotic, priests who say popes are fallible, colonels who accuse generals of fighting the last war. If a strictly random sampling of present American activists is drawn from many walks...
...Bourgeois, a Negro lawyer in St. Louis, was suddenly struck by the thought that every residential city block forms a potential human team to press into social action. On this inspiration he built his Block Partnership program, which unites the residents of a black ghetto block with a white civic-action group. These two sides discuss and tackle all kinds of problems, ranging from jobs to plumbing. In three months, Bourgeois' program has proved so effective that he was invited by Mayor Jonsson of Dallas to help set up the same operation there. The key, says Bourgeois, is involvement...
...encouraged the Doer's growth. But even in today's permissive culture, the Doer must discover himself. It is no coincidence that many Doers find their identity in law schools, for an understanding of the law, which binds the citizen and his institutions, is a highly useful civic weapon in calling society to account...
Short-Lived Title. Lately, the ailing nucleus of the city has been making a remarkable recovery. A burst of new construction-gleaming office towers, bank headquarters and a handsome civic center for the arts-has rejuvenated much of the area. Over the past eight years, the city's businessmen have committed $800 million for downtown building and remodeling. By 1970, that investment will yield 9,000,000 sq. ft. of new office space, almost twice as much as was built downtown in the first 60 years of the century. In the process of rejuvenation, the old heart...
...these that have shaped his reputation in the University community as two parts buffoon and one part bastard. Self-possessed Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Relations, smiles and shakes his head at the mention of Vellucci's name, while CRIMSON editors jump at the chance to make him appear a beast that never was on land or sea before. It was page one news last spring when Vellucci sat stony-faced through a young girl's tear-laden hour-long plea that her dog would be strangled if a proposed leash law was passed...