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...home and abroad, and the heavy emotional content of these problems, makes the moral leadership of the President more and more often the crucial factor. You will lead Presidents no less than being led by them," Donovan concluded. "Hold Presidents and yourselves, then, to the highest standards of civic courage, compassion and honor...
...Talmud scholar whose unorthodox approach to Orthodox Judaism has caused some concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
...decline of few other institutions could have wounded Boston's civic pride more. In the 1930s, during Mayor James Curley's heyday, Boston City was considered one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals. Curley kept it well staffed, often with his supporters, and made sure Boston's Irish got medical care "second to none." It still ranks as a first-rate research center, as a result of its affiliations with the Harvard, Tufts and Boston University medical schools, but that hardly helps patients with ordinary ailments...
...antihero. Playing the lesbian in that film was Val Solanas, 28, who last year formed the Society for Cutting Up Men. Her S.C.U.M. manifesto begins: "Life in this society being at best an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male...
...heavily black areas to the south in east of Dunster House would be hardest hit by the student influx into the market. The President's Assistant for Civic and Governmental Affairs constantly receives concerned letters from Cambridge residents and politicians over student off-camplus living. The student accepts a community responsibility when he enters Harvard, just as Harvard can be said to accept a responsibility to the Cambridge community for housing the 1200 minors it invites here every fall...