Word: civics
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...minute and a half before it all started. "Thank you," replied Hope calmly. "Shall I pull my pants up or just go on?" A minute and a half later, pants pulled up, the comedian-master of ceremonies walked onto the stage at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium and, for the eleventh time in 13 years, did his valiant, 21-hour best to pull up that most intractable of TV shows, the annual "Oscar" awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
...that, there are a number of University people on the committee, including Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Affairs; John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; and Theodore Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education...
Spurred by the Trib, 70 of the city's and world's largest corporations recently set up an organization to fight the exodus of small industry from New York. Says I. D. Robbins, president of the City Club, a group of civic leaders...
...York City's pressure-racked school system two years ago with a reputation as the nation's most technically proficient school administrator. His record in achieving racial integration and academic innovation in Pittsburgh had been brilliant. But Pittsburgh, with its 75,000 students and its tight, cooperative civic-power structure, is not New York, with its 1,060,000 students and its vast, indifferent establishment. Last week the mild-mannered Gross got a rude shove...
...traps were all around him, and Gross never did figure out how to avoid them. He found 212 professional and civic associations banging on his door with special gripes. He consumed hours in hearing them out, later complained: "There are a lot of people in this town who care more about the noise you make than the results you get. They're the 'go ahead, raise your voice, I'll hold your coat' types." He discovered he had wasted a lot of time: "I've never had to leave so much undone in my life...