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They might as well have stayed in Baltimore, for all their pleading. Floyd McKissick was not interested in cooperation or McKeldin's suggestion that he come to Baltimore the next day to talk with civic leaders. Baltimore has been selected as CORE'S target city for the summer of 1966, the demonstrations are in progress, and CORE is setting its own timetable and its own conditions. McKissick will talk to Baltimore leaders when he is ready. He had only one comment after they had gone. "Well, I'm surprised," he said. "You know, I really didn...
Wilson said that the Joint Center had no intention of ending its involvement with Boston civic affairs. He added, though, "we could never duplicate the concentrated effort we put into this project--we simply don't have the manpower or the money." Wilson said that calling the rejection of the redistricting report a disappointment to the Joint Center "would be the greatest understatement of many years...
...West Java, political-action groups representing Indonesian students and other civic organizations joined forces to demand that the Provisional People's Consultative Congress fire Sukarno as the nation's lifetime President, call elections to replace...
...beyond simple arithmetic rates near the bottom of the list, presumably because few adults require such skills in their own lives. Similarly, at the very bottom of the rankings is the ability to speak a foreign language. Surprisingly low rankings go to such goals as willingness to participate in civic projects and-even below appreciation of good food-appreciation of good music and drama...
...ecclesiastical professional, Thompson calls his dedication to church work a hobby. Born in Beloit, Kans., he is an elder of Wichita's First Presbyterian Church, has served on major Presbyterian committees since 1958. Thompson has a long record of community involvement in Wichita. He is chairman of the Civic Music Association, and helped to organize a local political reform movement (he is a registered Democrat...