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...single biggest exporter of machinery. Peorians attend the new $1,000,000 arts and science center at 21 times the rate for the average U.S. cultural facility. The city has modernized 50% of its downtown area at a cost of $50 million and has sent architects and civic leaders abroad to study European parks with an eye to transforming Peoria into an "open-space city...
Asian Democracy. Last week, 65 years after the slaughter on Samar, Filipinos and Americans were the staunchest of Asian allies. Descendants of the bolomen?1,200 soldiers from the Philippine Civic Action Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over...
With his appointment to the State Supreme Court in 1962, he continued his diatribe against public laxity. He scored "that approach to problems of democracy indulged in by so many suburbanites who conclude in their own minds that they have fully discharged their civic duties by immersing themselves in the affairs of those lovely towns in which they live, in complete forgetfulness of their larger responsibilities. We live in an age of relaxation. Something has happened to our morale and our outlook on law and government...
...petitions. With Chartist fervor, miles of signatures are collected each year on hand-drawn circulars passed from neighbor to neighbor, in organized mail campaigns, or to adorn elaborate newspaper ads. The greatest impetus to the petition business has been Viet Nam, but other, infinitely varied causes range from civic issues, such as the restoration of trolleys on New Orleans' Canal Street, to campus concerns, such as student demands at Berkeley that the university hospital provide birth control devices on request...
Houston, the headquarters for the manned space program, last week launched a festival that on the civic scale amounted to an Apollo program for the arts...