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...parts of Thailand since 1963 are happy to welcome the Air Commandos aboard. We've treated nearly 50,000 patients at sick call, dug 75 wells, constructed 25 schools, built 125 miles of road with some 30 bridges, and trained 15 counterpart Thai border-patrol police teams in civic action work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope & the Pill | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...Presidential Academy. Plato proposed the idea in ancient Greece. He called for the institutionalization of promising youngsters, who were to be schooled thoroughly in mathematics, philosophy, fine arts and gymnastics. There would be no personal wealth nor family life-they would, however, be permitted to mate under "civic control" with specially selected women. At 35, the Grecian would graduate from the process as the perfect leader-void of personal ambition and with concern solely for the well-being of the Greek democratic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...them if his gun had not jammed. Police found the weapon, a .30-cal. carbine, in a bush where Evans said he had dropped it. Evans, who affects the loose African dashike robe, received a $7,350 grant this summer from "Cleveland: Now!", Stokes' action group for civic betterment. He seems to have used the funds to better the community by buying weapons to disrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RIOTS: THIS ONE WAS PLANNED | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...city space, should be active, taking on shapes, not just lie dead beneath pedestrians. Cambridge must fight to be more than the sum of its traffic patterns, and more than just the city that surrounds Harvard, and for a start Brattle Square must be turned into the vital informal civic center and outdoor room that...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Brattle Square | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

Reacting to mounting civic fear, Mayor White slapped a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. antiloitering curfew on the Common. To protest the curfew, some 300 hippies held a candlelight parade through the Common, encouraging bystanders to join. Unfortunately, some of the joiners were teen-age thugs, and in a prolonged melee that flashed off and on for three days, 34 were arrested. Police said that only six of them were authentic hippies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Love-In in BossTown | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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