Word: civics
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...first time since Fidel Castro took power 3½ years ago, discontent became mass civic defiance. In the port city of Cárdenas (pop. 53,000), lying 73 miles east of Havana, crowds surged through the streets shouting, "We are hungry! Down with Communism!" Castro's reaction was to send Russian T-34 tanks rumbling threateningly through Cárdenas' rebellious streets...
...insurance wouldn't cover it." Manny is aggrieved that local newspapers have been digging up his past. "It is callous and unkind to repeatedly allude to my mistakes of long ago. Some of the people whom I know may not be entirely antiseptic. But most are banking, labor, civic, industrial, philanthropic leaders and members of the press." The grand opening last week was graced by Bobby Darin and George Kirby-with such headliners as Jack Leonard, Vic Damone, Keely Smith, the Kingston Trio, Joe E. Lewis and Ella Fitzgerald booked for future stands. Rooms run from...
...encouraging, Pusey felt, that such persons--"persons who care and do"--are found in colleges and universities around the country; because, he said, discipline and civic duty are not things which can be driven into a person from the outside." Instead, he said, "such qualities must be self-developed if they are to be had; or perhaps we should say rather such qualities may grow in a person in a favorable environment if the heart set upon them...
Died. William Curtis Bok, 64, longtime Pennsylvania jurist elected to a 21-year term on the state Supreme Court in 1958, a liberal, civic-minded Quaker who, as a scion of the Curtis and Bok publishing dynasty, was considered something of a renegade by his Main Line neighbors because of his New Deal politics; after a long illness; in Philadelphia's suburban Radnor. By his death, Bok, as one of five Curtis trustees, held up the possibility (strongly rumored, but unconfirmed) that Doubleday & Co. was about to buy into the Philadelphia-based magazine empire, in the red last year...
...Patience & Faith." Last year "Father Bob" won Jersey City's annual Community Brotherhood Award, but not all of his fellow Christians appreciate his work. An outspoken enemy of civic apathy and churchly indifference to evil, he has preached sermons on political responsibility, walked on picket lines to protest racial segregation in public housing. For such stands, Castle has received threatening telephone calls, and some of his older parishioners have complained to his bishop...