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...election this fall should revolve around the split in the Cambridge Civic Association over the election of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo as city manager. The CCA-endorsed council members split down the middle in the December 1965 vote with former mayor Edward A. Crane '35 and Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney against DeGuglielmo. Councillor Thomas Coates and Councillor Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler voting...
...areas where p.r. blurs into other activities, notably promotion, as in the creation, out of thin air, of a thin ephemeral wonder named Twiggy. Or else p.r. may be used as a label for image cosmetics, as when a p.r. firm is trying to make Frank Sinatra seem more civic-minded and Bobby Kennedy's press secretary is trying to make him seem less ruthless. Thus it is never easy to tell exactly what p.r. practitioners do. One of their most important functions is the least publicized; it lies not in interpreting the client to the world...
...strictly divided. In the winter of 1966, for example, the Cambridge City Council spawned a feud which dug deep into the City's political traditions and demonstrated that the old forces had lost much of their strength. The conventional political alignment had always pitted councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (a "good government" organization) against so-called independents, the non-endorsed councillors...
...headline at a time. As his pile of clippings grew, so did the number of skeptics. Last week, in an hour-long program called "The J.F.K. Conspiracy," the National Broadcasting Co. joined the crowd, accusing Garrison of going to considerable lengths to pin an assassination plot on New Orleans Civic Leader Clay Shaw...
Launched 15 years ago by Tyrone Guthrie as a wild dramatic dare, Stratford has evolved into a slightly smug civic investment. As a festival it has be come a creature of habit which in theater is not always a loss. Habit decrees the invited guest star-but what if the key actor is as singularly miscast as Alan Bates in the title role of Richard...