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...coalition supporting DeGuglielmo cut across the traditional lines of Cambridge politics. Two of its members--Thomas Coates and Cornelia B. Wheeler--are endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (a "good-government" organization whose major support lies in the upper-middle-class Brattle Street area...
...local militia armed with bolt-action rifles, are taking up posts in remote villages that rarely saw a cop in the past. In a direct copy of efforts in Viet Nam, well-armed People's Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over a map of Southeast Asia, stretching their fingers toward Thailand...
...grandson of an Inland founder and son of a longtime chairman, Block worked at every end of the business from mill hand up. Elected president in 1953 (he became chairman in 1959), he strengthened Inland's tradition as a civic-minded company by playing a prominent part in the fight for Illinois' fair-employment law, pushing a redevelopment program for East Chicago and, in 1957, putting up Inland's 19-story glass-and-steel headquarters, one of the most striking additions to Chicago's Loop since the Depression...
...were possessed of evil spirits and, according to St. Luke, "ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked." The swine, as Woolf sees it, were the Tories and ultranationalists who brought on the first World War, and the fascists and Communists whose fanaticism and civic savagery made a shambles of the peace...
Salutary Shake-Up. Shaw's energetic speechmaking to civic groups has also given the Establishment a salutary shaking up (his opener at the Junior League: "I feel as if I'm in the midst of a huge, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant harem"); and he has served notice that he hopes for even greater changes to come: more tours, participation by the orchestra in opera and ballet productions, creation of a conservatory in Atlanta...