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...selecting students for the program. American admissions officers sit in each cooperating country with African educators and civic leaders. The African committee members bring to the process a knowledge of educational problems and national manpower needs in each country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Colleges to Teach 800 Africans Next Fall | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Since the case involves questions of individual rights, race (Washington is a Negro), and police brutality, many civic organizations have taken an interest in it. The Congress o. Racial Equality (CORE) has provided Washington with free counsel...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Civic Organizations, Boston Papers Endorse Negro Folksinger's Appeal | 12/18/1962 | See Source »

Mayor James S. Baker, 45, is well aware that Pomona's new civic excitement will taper off, no matter how successful the project is. Addressing one of the many delegations from other cities that have visited Pomona to study the pros and cons of malls, he warned: "We realize that this spirit can't last forever, but we are trying to get as much done as we can while the spirit lasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Before the Mall Palls | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...question in Alabama is whether Wallace will listen to calls for moderation increasingly heard since the Mississippi riots. Business, church and civic groups want no trouble. The university, which federal troops burned to the ground in the Civil War, is still combustible. But it takes a Southern pride in cheerful fraternities and ferocious football, wants no riots. The trustees sternly proclaim that "law and order must be maintained at all times on the University of Alabama campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: They Don't Want Riots | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...public had been prepared for change by the city's press and by its leading groups and figures. In contrast, the "voices of reason and moderation" were rarely heard in New Orleans because the city's papers failed to "provide a forum for liberal voices." New Orleans' business and civic leaders, as well as the local papers, all "played ostrich and hoped that the problem would go away," said Galphin...

Author: By David I. Oyama, | Title: Galphin Declares Press Can Assist Integration | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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