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Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civic and governmental affairs, said yesterday that if the requirement were repealed, Harvard would be likely to apply for U.S. aid in the "War on Poverty...
Some councillors said that the Cambridge "Civic Unity Committee" was already handling civil rights problems and that another committee might not be needed...
...science or government, a landscape architect and a mathematics expert. Appropriately enough, Bacon lives in a four-story brick row house in midtown, a 15-minute walk from his office. His outside activities are not exactly wide-ranging. During winter term he conducts an evening course (Historic Examples of Civic Design) at the University of Pennsylvania...
...great change. In the past it was an area for a person to get out of, if he could afford it. Now it's a place to stay in." The Beautiful Cities. The urban renewal operation, always painful and not always a success, requires a solid consensus of civic opinion and energy. In Buffalo, for instance, a $15 million renewal program has been stalled in its tracks for a year and a half while politicians bicker over which developers should get the job. But most renewal is still slum clearance, and slum clearance has critics aplenty. The far political right...
Businessmen who crowded into San Francisco's Civic Auditorium last week tried their hand at playing blackjack against a computer. They inevitably lost, for the machine has not only broken the bank at Las Vegas in a test, but also outwits comptrollers and architects in performing such practically profitable jobs as laying out real estate subdivisions. Dozens of other whirring and flashing machines demonstrated how they simulate Gemini space flights, balance million-dollar corporate ledgers in a split second, or tap out a frighteningly human message-"Oh, that tickles"-in response to a rap on the keyboard. Such...