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...Sorensen's first actions was a dramatic and symbolic one: he sold Omaha's crumbling, 75-year-old City Hall to the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, moved city workers into an abandoned Elks building, and launched plans for a new $7.5 million civic center that he hopes to have built...
Communist indoctrination in schools has perforce turned soft-sell. Polish universities dropped compulsory-and widely scorned-cram courses in "Rudiments of Marxism-Leninism," now offer more flexible discussion courses on "Main Problems of Marxist Philosophy." Grade schools offer a new course called "civic education" directed at convincing children of "the superiority of the socialist system over the capitalist system," mainly by studying the party organization and local government in action...
...most discussed sections - the TIME Essay - begins its second year. From the very first one, examining the United Nations and its prospects, Essay has elicited a remarkable amount of public interest. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. distributed 10,000 reprints of No. 1 to college campuses and civic groups, and Harlan Cleveland, then Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, said of it: "Somehow your editors managed to squeeze into two fascinating pages the essence of the U.N.'s problems and prospects which have occupied our energies for the past several years...
Chicago's Committee of 100, a moderate but effective interracial civic organization, also condemned the attempted takeover. "Dr. King," it chided, "has advocated that bad laws should be disobeyed. Perhaps in those parts of the South where the law has two faces, one black and one white, this may be appropriate. But in the North, particularly in Chicago, the law has just one face applicable to all. No one is above the law here." Stubbornly, King vowed last week to maintain his stewardship, pending a hearing next month on Landlord Bender's protest...
...expect much opposition to the proposal. There may be some from local civic or historical organizations, but Hickey's original bill called for restoration of the Common after construction was completed...