Word: civics
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...issue of Architectural Forum in September,* there were many who mourned the magazine's passing. Chief among them were the 64,000 subscribers, who gave Forum top ranking in its field. This week, Forum got a new lease on life. Beginning next April, announced the American Planning and Civic Association, it will resume publication of architecture's most influential U.S. journal...
...case is the first one the Justice Department has brought in Selma, long a civic rights trouble spot. The Department has been researching it for over a year...
Also addressing the rally were Sumner Rosen, professor of Economics at Simmons, and Michael Hercovits, a sophomore at Brandeis. At the close of the meeting a telegram calling upon Clark Kerr and Governor Edmund Brown to drop all civic and academic charges against the demonstrators was unanamously approved
Done-for World. With that, the entire Calcutta establishment rose up in rage. Newspaper editorials, quoting passages from their works, proved conclusively that they were dangerous and dirty-so much so that Calcutta's reading public began to look for them. Under civic pressure, the police hauled away 26 of the "poets" for questioning. Five were suspended from their jobs and booked on charges of obscene writing and conspiracy against society...
...after he joined the Buffalo Courier-Express as a cub reporter, O'Brian was assigned to audit a performance of the local philharmonic orchestra. Offended by a guest appearance of some juvenile accordionists, O'Brian took the orchestra so severely to task that the incident became a civic cause celebre. When the orchestra changed hands shortly thereafter, O'Brian, with obvious satisfaction, claimed part of the credit...