Word: civics
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...major league baseball season opened in California last week-and so did Democrat Edmund ("Pat") Brown's campaign for re-election as Governor. At a breakfast rally in San Francisco's Civic Center Auditorium, Brown wound up and let fly with the political season's longest metaphor. Cried he of Republican Opponent Richard Nixon. "You've seen the scouting reports on the opposition. You know you can look for a lot of low, inside curves and some hot ones down the foul line. And it is a matter of record that their star pitcher...
...bill provides for a referendum to adopt a Plan "F" form of city government: partisan elections with primaries and political administration. This is a form of government that the Cambridge Civic Association and other local groups have sought to prevent in their campaign to maintain...
...same charges, made last week, were emphatically denied by University officials. Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said last night "it is absolutely untrue that Harvard owns income producing, non-educational property on which it is not paying taxes...
...spent many years in Argentina, it strikes me that the most harmful legacy left behind by this Mussolini-styled dictator is the uprooting of the moral and civic conscientiousness among the people and military of a country that enjoys all the qualifications to sustain a democracy. This will be the cause for a continued weak administration and corrupt politicians...
...Chicago's Richard Joseph Daley, 59, is not only mayor but absolute boss of the state Democratic machine and a formidable political manipulator with considerable "clout" on the national scene. Almost the last of the oldtime big-city bosses, he is a capable, Buddha-like civic leader who has used his political power to make Chicago one of the best-run cities in the U.S. He still lives in the humble back-of-the-yards district where he was born, works late into the night at his office, and was embarrassed last week to learn that he had been...