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Incumbent Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 is serving his second consecutive term and is not expected to be reelected unless a deadlock develops between the independent and the Cambridge Civic Association-backed candidates on the Council...
...Different Image. The most striking aspect of the revolt, however, is the change in Negroes themselves. The Invisible Man has now become plainly visible-in bars, restaurants, boards of education, city commissions, civic committees, theaters and mixed social activities, as well as in jobs. Says Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "There has been a re-evaluation of our slave philosophy that permitted us to be satisfied with the leftovers at the back door rather than demand a full serving at the family dinner table." With this has come a new pride in race. Explains Dr. John R. Larkins...
Sporting the chief executives of all firms employing more than 50 people, the Citizens Council now has over 250 members. Together, these "civic super dads" employ 92 per cent of the city's work force. The most recent--and perhaps, most typical--undertaking of the Council has been the desegregation of Dallas. The DCC realized that the city could be materially damaged by failure to accept federal law peacefully. They attributed the disasters of Little Rock and New Orleans to the abdication of responsibility, by community leadership. If a similar vacuum were created in Dallas, the least respectable elements could...
Certainly the President's assassination jolted the overwhelming majority of Dallas citizens just as it did the rest of the nation. But the reactions of a few belied the deep strain of callous self interest that resides not far below the city's civic league surface. An audience of 1800 packed the Dallas City Opera the evening after the assassination to to applaud Verdi's Masked Ball. Citizens held indignant meetings to decide what to do about ministers who issued malicious statements about the city. The school board fired--later rehired--the teacher who reported her student's applause...
...Mount Clemens, Mich., a former spa still reminded of its past by the faint odor of sulphur water, civic morale has been bolstered by the erection of the $350,000 headquarters of the Mount Clemens Federal Savings & Loan Association. Architects Meathe, Kessler & Associates of Grosse Pointe, designed a graceful concrete hat with upturned brim, decorated it with plastic skylights, and surrounded it with fountains and gardens...