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...guards its monuments jealously. In fact, the city has largely resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
Under the Cross. In private conversations with Southern civic leaders after his sermons, Billy expects to "say plenty" about the need for racial understanding in the South. Onstage, however, he intends to heal, not harangue, offer the message of the Gospel on race in beyond-the-battle terms. "I believe that under the shadow of the cross of Christ is the place of true brotherhood...
After all, Al Vellucci is nothing more than the old ward "boss." Most civic texts frown on bosses. The boss, the theory runs, sacrifices the general interest to the very particular needs of his own district. And there is al- ways, the implication that the "boss" or the machine is easily corrupted...
...volunteers will work in small teams, cooperating closely with existing local Negro civic improvement associations. At the moment, SCLC is trying to recruit about 250 fulltime staff members to help direct the program, but it appears likely that many projects will lack such guidance. A five-day orientation program will begin June 14. Volunteers are expected to support themselves...
...said that there will also be more individual confrontations between the adherents of the two faiths. There are more possibilities of common worship, he asserted. Increasing civic participation will also bring members of the two faiths face to face, he said. It is such interchanges, he concluded, that will help remove the barriers between the two Churches...