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This spring, the graduate students in the government department have created and staffed a speakers bureau in order to carry their views on the war to clubs, churches, and other civic groups in the Harvard vicinity...
...join him on the ballot: Anthony McI. Glavin '68, Roger O'Sullivan, a junior at Boston State, and Brendon Synnott, a senior at Boston State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge Civic Association member; Joseph Carceo, former president of the Marsh Post veterans organization: Francis Mahoney, an undertaker on Huron Avenue a block away from the Hickey undertaking establishment; Bernard Flynn, a city worker; Mrs. Bernard Flynn and Mrs. James Sugrue, housewives; James Maloney, a printer; and Patricia Rumsey, a secretary...
...Athens. But most Clevelanders welcome the new arrangement. The eighth largest U.S. city, Cleveland has long qualified as one of the nation's leading cultural centers, thanks largely to its prestigious museum and symphony orchestra. Both are housed in "University Circle," a 488-acre civic complex that Cleveland citizens proudly refer to as "the modern Athens." Until the formation of Case Western Reserve, however, the city's higher education lagged behind its cultural achievements. "It was an idea whose time had come," says one of the new school's trustees. "It gives Cleveland a university...
...chary about committing his talents to a single position. Instead, he has accepted jobs as a consultant to the Carnegie Corporation (of which he was president before becoming HEW Secretary in 1965), as a director of Time Inc., and as chairman of the national Urban Coalition, an amalgam of civic leaders dedicated to combating the ills of the cities. Last week the onetime college psychology instructor took on a university assignment as well. Starting next fall, he will be a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, commuting from Washington to Cambridge to consult with faculty members on urban...
...several states, civic organizations now make it a custom to collect discarded Christmas trees, haul them to the beaches, where they trap flowing sand and shore up the dunes, and Boy Scouts plant marsh grass to anchor the dunes. One hardy variety of sea grass that has been developed by North Carolina State University grows 4 ft. high in twelve months. Ocean City, N.J., is experimenting with nylon bags that can be filled on the spot with sand and used as temporary groins. On Wallops Island, Va., NASA has proposed planting plastic seaweed just beyond the surf line to reduce...