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There were, however, several hitches in this plan. Many volunteers were not ready to take the final plunge of registering as Republicans. So Price, developed an alternate scheme. Volunteers were encouraged to form CIA's (Civic Improvement Agencies). These were designed to operate much like the neighborhood Republican clubs, but without requiring members to work in partisan politics...
...core of old-times (the rate of home ownership is ten times that in central Harlem), and they have a strong sense of community. They have set up dozens organizations -- the area is dotted with signs reading "Support Your Block Club"--and welded them, together with an array of civic-action and church groups, into the powerful Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council...
...little to dampen the spirit of this capitalistic rite of spring. Company directors grinned and bore the usual questions about executive wages, profit sharing, charitable contributions, and cumulative stock voting. A.T. & T.'s new chairman, Haakon I. Romnes, greeted his 4,801 guests at Baltimore's Civic Center and handled the meeting with aplomb. In Detroit, Chrysler shareholders barely flinched when Chairman Lynn A. Townsend told them that first-quarter earnings had plummeted 71 % from a year earlier...
...inconvenient. It requires a major investment in property that has, at best, a low-profit potential. Beyond that, eviction of the present paying tenants means that the building remains fallow during the months of renovation work. Last week New York City and federal housing authorities teamed up with the civic-minded Carolyndale Foundation to stage an impressive demonstration of what can be done to rehabilitate a slum structure in just 48 hours...
Laredo poverty war leaders are keenly sensitive to this concern on the part of the local civic and political leaders; indeed, many of the antipoverty officials are themselves powers in the community...