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Decline of Indignation. In a city where newspaper columnists are almost always civic boosters, Mike Royko, 33, is a constant critic. A foe of all forms of cant and pomp, he carries on a love-hate affair with his home town. He writes tenderly of its ethnic neighborhoods, its traditions and folkways; he fires at will at its politicians and their pretensions. When public officials raced to outdo each other issuing outraged statements after an attempted gangland killing, Royko sadly noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot...
...Profits from Speeches. Kresge and Son Stanley own $4,000,000 worth of the company's stock. The founder long ago had donated almost all his holdings to the $175 million Kresge Foundation. Now headed by Stanley, it supports Detroit civic organizations and the Salvation Army as well as higher education and hospitals all over the world. Dedicating Kresge Hall at Harvard Business School when he was 85, S. S. gave one of the tautest ribbon-cutting speeches on record. He simply said: "I never made a dime talking." Then, as he did last week, one of the last...
...Committee and an oft-heard advocate of greater political and economic cooperation within the Alliance. He speaks regularly and perceptively on the problems of Germany and of Viet Nam. On the domestic scene, he is an authority on issues ranging from Medicare to middle-income housing, civil rights to civic beautification, the arts to the sciences. New Yorker Javits can even wax oracular about agriculture. "Ask him something about apple-growing," says New York State G.O.P. Treasurer Bill Pfeiffer, "and you would think he had been growing them all his life...
...exploring unity in theory, pragmatic considerations have already created a measure of interdenominational cooperation among Jews. Except for a small group of militant Orthodox fundamentalists, all three branches participate in the Synagogue Council of America, which coordinates the assignment of federal prison chaplains and certain Jewish activities in civic affairs. Recently the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, representing 21 secular and religious agencies, voted to transform itself into a stronger and more centralized body, which hopes to enable Jewry to speak "with one voice" on all "major Jewish issues of our time...
...mayor, being such a famous local innkeeper and all. But, said Bobby Baker, 37, bustling around his ocean-side Carousel Motel, "I'm not a candidate for anything. I've got more problems than I can say grace over." Lyndon Johnson's former protege is awfully civic-minded, though. He thinks the Federal Government, for example, ought to develop nearby Assateague Island into "a major recreation center." Baker even offered to help the locals fund the project. "I know how to get federal money," he said, "if they'll listen to me." That sounds ominous...