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...Lieut. Governor Carroll Gartin, addressing the Greenville Chamber of Commerce, counseled that "we must adjust to change or be destroyed by change." Said Gartin: "Businessmen, industrialists and civic leaders must speak up and speak out in a positive manner. We must not let the irresponsible become the voice of Mississippi, because in that silence we do our people the gravest injustice...
Last week a Texas delegation headed by Edward Marcus of Dallas' Neiman-Marcus department store returned from Lima, where the Texans investigated joint-venture possibilities with Peruvian businessmen. And a group of New Jersey civic leaders is just back from a visit to Brazil's underdeveloped north east state of Alagoas, looking for ways to help Brazilians help themselves. In one village the North Americans promised assistance for ten self-help projects, starting with a powerful pump for an irrigation well. Arthur Byrnes, assistant Alianza director for Brazil, explains: "This program is small in terms of dollars...
...litter of dead car carcasses is bothering more and more civic groups, such as the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy has even urged the use of excise taxes on gasoline to subsidize the scrapping of cars. The trouble is twofold: 1) as population and incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto...
...Cruisers suggested establishing "a combination clearing house and adoption agency to issue figures on how many boys are needed at the 'Cliffe and which girls are willing to do their civic duty...
...Korean War, he established a reputation as a reformer in uniform after Valencia brought him into the Cabinet in 1962. At the time, the country was plagued by poverty-fed badlands banditry that had been going on unabated for more than a decade. Ruiz Novoa initiated a program of civic action by the army to help peasants improve their lot. He also reorganized Colombia's army into what is today South America's most effective anti-guerrilla force, managed to reduce the bandits to the status of a mere nuisance...