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Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations and another member of the Wilson Committee who was present at the SFAC meeting, referred to the University's previous passive role in the community and suggested that coming years would see it assume a more active attitude...
...truth is that such disasters as the Battle of Chicago are easily avoided by granting the demonstrators' legitimate demands, such as rallying in parks, and smothering the affair in a soft blanket of civic disinterest. This takes official determination to forget the High Noon syndrome, ample communication with demonstration leaders and masses of calm cops who flood the premises, making sure that any violence is committed only by small groups of isolated, discredited protesters. When 25,000 anti-Castro Cubans wanted to picket the Republican Convention, for example, Miami Beach Police Chief Pomerance quietly diverted...
...letter sent this week to officials of the Cambridge Housing Convention, which two weeks ago passed several resolutions blasting Harvard and M.I.T.'s housing practices, Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, stated that Harvard would continue to work--primarily through the University-backed Cambridge Corporation--to increase low income housing in Cambridge...
...moment, the only room in the house without paintings is the master bedroom. Carmen Kreeger has banned all art there so that when visitors come, there will be no excuse to invade their hosts' privacy. Civic groups and philanthropic organizations are already badgering the Kreegers with requests to send groups to view the collection. In time, says Kreeger, he may well make both house and collection into a museum. But for the time being, the Kreegers would like to keep it mainly for themselves and their friends...
...performances in 16 years, and just two more victories will make him the first 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean turned the trick in 1934. These figures may make Denny baseball's man of the year. In Detroit, they have made him the man of the quarter-century?a civic hero whose strong right arm is pointing the Tigers toward their first American League pennant in 23 long years...