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Frank B. Freidel Jr., professor of History, Charles M. Haar, professor of Law, and Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, are listed as members of the Committee. Several prominent members of the Cambridge Civic Association are also on the letterhead...
Belin was elected to his first term on the Council in November of 1961. A former president of the Cambridge Civic Association, he is one of four Councillors supported...
...Thanks. While Swainson was struggling, Romney was beginning to generate some political dynamism. He had always been willing to lend his cyclonic energy to civic affairs. He led the campaign to set up a convention to rewrite Michigan's antiquated constitution. The convention was in session, with Romney as one of its vice presidents, when he an nounced in February that he was a candidate for Governor...
...Byron's lines suggest, Venetians long have been preoccupied with a ghastly civic problem: their lovely city is slowly sinking into the water. Already, in the stormy autumn and winter seasons, Venetians sometimes move through St. Mark's Square in gondolas, and housewives occasionally have to do their shopping in fishermen's boots...
...shabbiest, most depressed and depressing cities in the U.S. Liberal Dilworth cajoled millions out of the U.S. to rebuild Philadelphia. But he also persuaded Philadelphia's own citizens to pitch in, and he could not have done the job that he did without private-enterprise financing. Dilworth bounced civic heads together until everyone was cooperating on his new highways and skyways, parks and playgrounds, office buildings and housing projects. His energy created a downtown area that today is widely regarded as a model of urban sprightliness, rather than a blot of blight...