Word: civics
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...Chicago bureau and our New York editors-who visit Chicago often -agreed long ago that changing Chicago deserved cover treatment, and that the mayor-and not a businessman, a civic leader or an educator-was the best man to tell the story around. There ensued a long series of wired exchanges on how best to illustrate the look of the city, and which editors, entertainers, clergymen or socialites should be photographed in color to give the flavor and savor of Chicago...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to President Pusey for civic affairs, told the councillors yesterday that Harvard is considering ways to help the City refurbish and maintain the Corporal Burns playground, located next to Dunster House...
...joined India's tiny crorepathis, or millionaire class. On the way there, they earned the dislike of their countrymen for their rough and sometimes ruthless pursuit of money. Unlike India's Parsees, who have provided the country with soldiers, administrators and artists, most Marwaris care little for civic improvements or municipal hygiene-they see no profit in it. Their indifference contributes to the neglect obvious everywhere in Calcutta, one of the world's most depressing cities; the wealthier Marwaris live in more pleasant surroundings in huge mansions on the city's outskirts...
...begins in rows of grey filing cabinets jammed with information about every likely U.S. community. Then Fantus agents, frequently including Yaseen or Fulton themselves, prowl through the most promising cities, trying to keep their presence unknown. Besides looking for the resources and land their client needs, they check on civic attitudes and going wage rates, look over the school system to see if the town is forward-looking. They even make a point of finding out whether the local stores sell expensive or cheap lingerie, considering this an excellent way of determining whether the workers are upgrading their tastes...
...proved to have nearly everything needed to make chop suey, Fantus found it a new resident in Chun King Corp. The Fantus report on Evansville, Ind., so strongly criticized the town's attitude ("Evansville people resent anyone in power . . . politics is a dirty word") that it inspired civic reform and later enabled the city to attract new plants...