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...University of Illinois at Chicago Circle sits in the inner city-as does the Sorbonne in Paris. Within view of the Loop, the campus actually occupies the area designated by City Planner Daniel ("Make no little plan") Burnham in 1909 as the site for Chicago's future civic center. It is no coincidence that the campus is the first ever named for a traffic clover-leaf-the adjacent intersection of three expressways called Chicago Circle...
...votes pledged to DeGuglielmo seemed secure last night, though it is thought that the Saia appointment will increase pressure on Mrs. Wheeler and intensity a division within the Cambridge Civic Association. Two of the four CCA endorsed Councillors, Crane and Thomas H.D. Mahoney, are backing Curry; the other two, Mrs. Wheeler and Thomas Coates, support DeGugilelmo...
Vellucci has held the balance of power between the two groups of councillors -- those endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association and the non-endorsed "independents." Though Vellucci is an independent, on each occasion he has delivered victory to Edward A. Crane '35, a CCA-backed councillor and a long-time friend...
...over the nation, a growing number of city magazines are sounding the civic alarm bell. Once mostly the tame products of chambers of commerce, and dedicated to singing the praises of their cities, they are now breaking loose on their own. Magazines like Seattle, Greater Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix are privately published and proudly argumentative. They tackle the kind of controversial issues-haphazard zoning, air pollution, lethargic politics, shoddy construction-that would have frightened off their predecessors. "We were a booster before," says Alan Halpern, 39, editor of Greater Philadelphia...
...Italian opera star, a peppery tenor who, saying that hours spent in practice are wasted ("Singing is not like athletics-you don't get any better by exercise"), nursed his voice through a 54-year career, first in romantic opera, scoring successes in the U.S. with the Chicago Civic Opera in the '20s and New York's Metropolitan Opera in the early '40s, and later in concerts, to which he turned in his 60s to pursue an only slightly less vigorous career; of diabetic cardiovascular disease; in Manhattan...