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...central Luzon, Marcos' own formula is a blend of military and civic action, with emphasis on the latter. "Call it anything you like," he says, "community development, civic action, rural reconstruction, revolutionary development. It boils down to offering a better life to the peasant." That, as the Johnson Administration emphasized in the Honolulu Declaration of February 1966, may ultimately prove the only formula for success in Viet Nam as well...
...donation, a gift for Chicago." With those words, the Windy City became the recipient of one of the most magnificent windfalls in its history: Picasso's $100,-000 design for a 50-ft. sculpture to stand in front of the city's new $87 million civic center. Also without charge, the Spanish master-who will turn 85 next month-threw in his original 42-in. maquette for the Chicago Art Institute...
...offer of sewer and water bonds, and Baltimore failed to obtain a single bid on a $31.8 million issue because the city set an interest limit of 41% - the equivalent of a 9% taxable investment for a man in the 50% income tax bracket. After housing, bond men forecast, civic improvements may well become the next big victim of high-priced money...
Realizing that a march through Cicero might lead to disaster, the civic leaders of the Chicago area quickly moved to meet the challenge with positive action. Sitting down with King at week's end, they agreed to his demands for an "open city," promised to take affirmative steps to open all-white neighborhoods to Negroes. The Chicago Real Estate Board withdrew its opposition to the basic tenet of open-housing legislation. The housing authority promised to improve public housing and place families in the best available housing without regard to the racial character of the neighborhood. Mortgage bankers said...
...Martin Luther King, who for several weeks has been spotlighting Negro grievances in the Chicago area through demonstrations, scheduled a march to protest closed housing in Cicero early last month, but called it off at the urging of Chicago religious and civic leaders. He scheduled it again for last Sunday-to the horror of Illinois officials. Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie warned that a march through Cicero would be "suicidal" and would make previous disturbances in Chicago itself "look like a tea party...