Word: civics
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...affluent society. Said he: "Never before has the country faced so clearly the choice that it now faces between moving ahead or settling for what we now have, for leaning back, if you will, and patting our stomachs." For all the well-upholstered abdomens in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, there were signs of change by convention's end last week...
...enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their old records, was deluged with 3,300 in one week...
Vellucci motioned to Charles P. Whitlock '48 assistant to the President for civic and governmental relations, who sat next to him: "You see Charley Whitlock here. Well, in a year he'll still be assistant to the President--President Alfred E. Vellucci...
...local pipe factory at the time he was shot. The nightriders who killed Brewster had just heard a National States Rights Party speaker call for "bloodshed" if necessary to protect white men from Negroes and Communists. To add incentive to the search for the killers, Anniston's civic and business leaders offered a $21,000 reward...
...Brown and the trustees while together in harness. Sprawling Los Angeles has long suffered from the guilt of cultural deprivation; it felt overshadowed by San Francisco, which boasts an opera house and no fewer than three museums. But in the span of seven years, a surge of civic unity has given Los Angeles a new $33.5 million music center and, 61 miles away, the terraced pavilions of the $12 million art museum. Los Angeles has become the U.S.'s second art capital, no longer threatened with losing its collections of old masters to prestigious museums elsewhere...