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...pumped $42 million into the public schools of Flint to keep them open evenings, weekends and summers for an improbable array of community activities. This year 92,000 residents of Flint (pop. 200,000), more than half of them adults, have signed up for extra curricular educational, recreational and civic programs in the city's schools. Including 47,000 school-age children, well over half of Flint's residents are involved in some form of school activity...
...executive director of Mott Foundation projects. "Then you get a little serious sewing-then you build on that, and first thing you know you've got a terrific home economics course going." All the newer schools have a built-in "community room" open to meetings of clubs and civic groups...
...thing, because HemisFair '68, which last week opened its six-month run, gives a big lift to the civic pride of San Antonio, long a sleepy city (pop.: 755,550) at the edge of the Texas hill country, previously noted mainly as the site of the Alamo. For another, it stimulates tourism: officials estimate conservatively that, during HemisFair, 7,500,000 people will visit San Antonio and will spend $35 million there...
...guise of a carnival, with the Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...
...would try to get buses closer to the curb at pickup. Whether talking of hippies on the Haight ("This is not going to be any police state") or to Department Store Magnate Cyril Magnin (whom Alioto made city protocol chief), the balding, somber-suited mayor is the master of civic ceremony. Last week he redeemed a painful campaign promise to reduce city property taxes 20% by proposing a commuter tax-the first on the West Coast* which, if enacted, will net $14 million a year from San Francisco's 122,000 outside workers. They earn 50% of the city...