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...twelve women--who certainly weren't trying to be controversial--were members of the Civic Center and Clearing House, a tiny organization occupying three upstairs rooms near the State House. It has no paid help, and its director, John W. Putnam '33, pays a fair share of its shoestring budget out of his own pocket...
...Civic Center itself works primarily with retired men and women who come in with time on their hands and no productive way to apply...
...tree supposedly planted in Boston Common by John Hancock. Several other volunteers are concentrating on the problem of air and water pollution, filing literature on the subject as it appears in newspapers and magazines, and operating a library and Environmental Information Center in one room of the Civic Center's office...
John W. Putnam, director of Boston's Civic Center, will speak on "Dirty Warter: The Pollution Crisis" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Quincy Junior Common Room...
Before then, Builder Zingone plans to head-quite literally-for the hills. Pitting pragmatism against civic pride, he is planning a residential center in the Tuscan highlands outside Florence on the theory that "after the floods last fall, Florentines would welcome a place to live safe up in the hills...