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...founder, is urbane, aristocratic, international-minded and remote. Globe Publisher Richard H. Amberg, 55, who was brought in from Syracuse by Sam Newhouse when he bought the paper in 1955, is hard driving, domineering, locally oriented and a joiner. He is reputed, in fact, to have joined more civic organizations than any other publisher in the U.S., and he is constantly supporting local causes in his paper. "He gets into every nook and cranny," says Pulitzer, an art collector whose own local activities are confined pretty much to cultural causes. "If he sees an opening, he's in there...
...Chattanooga last month, despite endorsements from civic organizations, PTAs and school officials, voters rejected a $10 million school bond issue. At the same time, citizens of the Center school district in Kansas City, Mo., were turning down-for the third time in a row-a $600,000 bond issue to build a new elementary and junior high school. The same week, homeowners in Ann Arbor, Mich., refused to approve a real estate tax hike to pay for teachers' salary increases; the teachers are now threatening to strike...
...both hats in creating San Francisco's projected Embarcadero Center (TIME, Feb. 24) and Atlanta's own downtown Peachtree Center, of which the hotel is a part. With an eye to both urban development and showmanship, he has gone all out toward making Regency Hyatt House a civic showpiece...
...kidnapings and bomb-throwings that nearly panicked the country last year. One reason: the guerrillas have lacked a leader since Luis Turcios Lima died at 24 in an auto accident last October. New President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has combined an army drive to hunt down guerrillas with a civic-action program that aims to lure peasants from the rebel cause by making life a little less unpleasant in the harsh backlands...
...company explained that it could not commit itself in advance to hiring a specific number of workers. Nor would it grant any single organization exclusive recruitment powers. Despite the company's explanations, Kodak's employment policies became an issue that embroiled the city's church and civic leaders. Warned Florence ominously: "What happens in Rochester in the summer of '67 is at the doorstep of Eastman Kodak." At FIGHT'S urging national Methodist, United Church of Christ and Episcopal leaders withheld proxies on church-owned stock from management...