Word: civics
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...Straus, wife of the president of Radio Station WMCA, is a dry-minded girl who decided a year and a half ago to "bring about a system to end all the chaos." With a volunteer staff of 25 (including socialites and civic leaders), one secretary (Columnist Max Lerner's daughter) and five telephones, Call for Action set up shop. Sparked by spot announcements over (naturally) WMCA assuring listeners that a phone call to the group would expedite a complaint, Call has handled complaints from nearly 15,000 natives suddenly afforded a sympathetic ear and, more important, the name...
Seven present or former members of the Harvard Faculty are among a group of over 130 civic, business, religious, and academic leaders who have formed a committee to "expose and correct the activities of the John Birch Society...
...have to take curriculums in packages from textbook publishers and teachers colleges. An energetic exception to this educational drift is suburban Cleveland, where 27 private, public and parochial school systems are partners in the Educational Research Council, a nonprofit laboratory for learning founded five years ago with backing from civic-minded Cleveland business leaders...
...said he felt that the Committee would attract a large number of civic-minded Cambridge citizens, both Negro and white. Bailey said he had hoped that young people would join the organization, but had learned that teenagers from the Houghton Park area had already made plans to form a group of their own. "I believe they have plans to organize as a Negro group," Bailey said, "but will expand and integrate as things progress...
...locations around the city. More than half of the tutors (average age: 17) are girls, and each tutor works about 15 hours a week under paid supervisors from Cleveland's school system. Sessions, which usually last an hour and a half, are held in Y.M.C.A.s, libraries, churches, civic clubs and community centers...