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PITTSBURGH. Civic Light Opera Company: Guys and Dolls, through...
Without entering upon a discussion on the measures taken against the University of Buenos Aires, of which I am a recent alumnus, I believe myself to have the civic olbigation to make clear the historical significance of the Revolution of June...
...area lived almost completely outside the law of Bangkok, haunted by superstition, disease and ignorance and sustained only by its bumper crops of illegal opium. Today, Red terrorists are active both in the country's northeast and in the Moslem provinces of the south. But thanks to a civic-action program that is nipping Red subversion in its earlier stages, the north is relatively free of trouble. "Nation building is what we're doing," says one official in Mae Rim, 107 miles from the Laos border. "We're extending government influence to all within Thai borders...
...turmoil was not nearly so bad as it might have been; and for once New York-long considered one of the U.S.'s most problem-plagued cities-could attribute the trouble's swift suppression to some foresighted if only partly proved civic remedies. The frenzied Harlem riots of 1964 taught officials a frightening lesson. Negroes on the police force have been given better assignments. Mayor Lindsay recently appointed a seven-man review board-including two Negroes, a Puerto Rican, and two men active in civil rights groups-to handle the predominantly Negro complaints of police brutality. Beyond that...
...relatively new value (and is still rare in much of the non-Western world, which either does not appreciate it or cannot afford it). One Greek word for a private person was "idiot," which, then as now, carried implications of ignorance -or at least a large indifference to civic concern. The tribe knew no privacy, and even the lord of the feudal manor lived in a swarm of servants, children and relatives, often all of them sleeping around the edges of the big hall where the fireplace was. Until the start of the 18th century, rooms in even the grandest...