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Worried about land speculation and uncontrolled growth around the Kennedy Library, a number of city planners and Cambridge civic leaders are informally suggesting the creation of an urban renewal project in the vicinity of the Library...
...White Win?" Running for the state senate, Candidate Jordan helped to assure a big Negro turnout by mailing sample ballots, with instructions on how to vote for her, to the district's 35,000 Negro homes. But she also stumped white neighborhoods, addressed white civic clubs, won the endorsement of the white-ruled Democratic organization. While her opponent, former State Representative J. C. Whitfield 44, resorted to plaintive racist appeals ("Can a white man win?") Miss Jordan drummed home the need for such reforms as state minimum-wage provisions, industrial-accident laws and lower auto-insurance rates...
...Chinese tourist agency Luxingshe. Though they carefully emphasize the more attractive aspects of Chinese life, the tours nonetheless reveal a good deal of its quality and detail. The accompanying color pictures, taken on one such tour, show smiling children in their best dress, model schools, other civic projects and an air of brisk, bright uplift -but they also make clear the ceaseless indoctrination, the careful regimentation and the firm discipline that pervade life in Red China...
That dramatic move marshaled Willis' last show of significant support. A committee of business and civic leaders asked him to reconsider, and the school board persuaded him to stay. Civil rights groups only increased their pressure: 225,000 students stayed out of school in one boycott. The school board tired of Willis last summer, informally voted 7 to 4 not to renew his contract, compromised on his guarantee to quit when he reaches 65 next December. Willis faced not only a hostile board but also 48 top Chicago businessmen-including Inland Steel's Joseph L. Block, Foote, Cone...
...outcry over the Johnson Administration's much-ballyhooed poverty program is by no means limited to Republicans. In city after city, outraged Democratic mayors have protested that Washington is subsidizing wars of civic subversion by insisting that the poor be given a voice in dispensing the manna that has traditionally been a city hall prerogative...