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...amount of self-conscious effort that her citizens have invested in making a good image for their town. Consequently the grotesque events of this November in Dallas have a special meaning for Dallas's denizens. More than a sense of national tragedy, they have a sense of civic ire; for Dallas' carefully constructed image has been soiled...
Three rarely heard works by three often played composers make up the program of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra's concert in Sanders Theatre tomorrow...
Died. Donald Dean Summerville, 48, mayor of Toronto, a onetime R.C.A.F. pilot who won an upset victory last December over a longtime incumbent, in less than a year made a strong start at cutting civic waste and featherbedding; of a heart attack suffered while tending goal in an exhibition hockey match to raise funds for victims of the recent Italian dam disaster; in Toronto...
...Dallas this week, Monteverdi's rarely performed Coronation of Poppea proved its viability by inaugurating the 1963 Dallas Civic Opera season. And it was not the salacious story that kept Poppea popping. In Monteverdi's musical and theatrical masterpiece burgeon the seeds of the great operas of succeeding centuries-hints oi Verdi, Wagner and Richard Strauss...
...Georgia, the Decatur-De Kalb News, which gives away 32,700 copies a week, has its own editorial cartoonist, pays the dues of all reporters who want to join civic clubs-and on rainy days fields as many as 500 telephone complaints from irate "subscribers" who simply cannot understand why delivery has been delayed. In increasing numbers, the giveaways break up the ads with news stories. But their editorial staffs vary widely. The San Francisco Progress, with a city distribution of 181,000-more than any of San Francisco's three big paid-circulation dailies -gets along fine with...