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Councillors Wise, Belin, DeGuglielmo, and Mayor Crane voted against the Council resolution to support the bill. All four are backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, which supported PR last November...
Paul ("Tony") Hinkle is a man of frightening versatility. In addition to being athletic director at Indiana's Butler University (undergraduate enrollment: 1,900), Hinkle is an author, TV commentator, lecturer and Indianapolis civic leader. A trim 63, he manages Butler's baseball team; to make sure the playing field is in top shape, he plows, seeds and rakes it himself. In the fall he coaches football, and his teams have lost only one game in the past three years. But for Hinkle, these activities are merely sidelines. In the winter he knuckles down to his main...
...when an enemy air attack occurs, your family happens to be out on a picnic in nature's wide open spaces, "try to get to some substantial structure, such as a large commercial or civic building, a tunnel, or cave. If none of these is readily available, look for a culvert, underpass or ditch--anything that will get you below ground level--and improvise a shelter"--presumably with any old sandbags or concrete blocks that happen to be lying around...
Point-Blank. Warning darkly of a "Communist plot," Rodriguez Echavarria sent air force troops into the streets of Santo Domingo last week with orders to shoot to kill in case of trouble. They found trouble at the headquarters of the National Civic Union (U.C.N.), the country's strongest anti-Trujillo organization...
Since the leaders of the opposition National Civic Union are now under arrest, it is clear that this is a coup aimed at forestalling democratic elections in the country. The nation's calm these past weeks belies the junta's claim that Communists were about to sieze power...