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Born to a family heritage of civic involvement going back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Lodge early knew the ambiance of power. His namesake and grandfather was the scholarly, fiercely principled Senator from Massachusetts, who took over as young Cabot's father and tutor after his own father, a poet, died when the boy was seven. After zipping through Harvard in three years cum laude, Lodge, on his grandfather's advice, shunned law as the natural route into politics and entered journalism as a reporter for the old Boston Evening Transcript. He proved an able one and moved...
...unit war against Communist regulars. The South Vietnamese were to hold the countryside against the Viet Cong and pacify it. Just as Hanoi employed North Vietnamese troops to take the pressure off their men in the countryside, so the U.S. was to free the South Vietnamese for counterguerrilla civic action...
...Richard Daley called the statue a "free expression" of the "vitality of the city." When at last the great blue veiling fell away (see opposite page), the crowd, estimated at upwards of 25,000, greeted it with an awed and respectful hush. Against the stark Miesian geometry of the Civic Center stood a majestic monument, its massive metal features-relieved by lacy rods-matching the building's rust-colored Cor-Ten steel girders. Picasso's work gracefully dominated the 78,000-sq.-ft. plaza as much by its delicate airiness as by its mass-both a contrast...
Watts is still a far from pleasant place to live, but Negroes have begun to organize work projects and civic activities that give it a semblance of community life. Last week members of some of the more militant black organizations united with N.A.A.C.P. members to quash a riot in Watts before it had a chance to begin. "If Los Angeles does get through the summer," says Mayor Sam Yorty, "it will be primarily because of the hard personal efforts of the majority of Negroes themselves...
...jobs in the past six months. In Indianapolis, Schoolteacher Mattie Rice Coney organized 500 block clubs to clean up the ghetto, figures that her group has swept up 42,000 tons of trash in the last year. "Slums are made by people," she says, "not by plaster or bricks. Civic rebuilding begins with people who care about themselves...