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Into the modernistic Civic Center in the Rio Grande city of McAllen (pop. 32,728) last week crowded some 650 Texans to cheer Davy Crockett's words from the movie, The Alamo: "There's right and there's wrong. You gotta do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other, and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat." Then nearly 200 of them announced their resignations from the Democratic Party and pledged their allegiance to the G.O.P. in Texas...
...grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp) bellowed, and booted him out the gate. But that night and every night Bobby sneaked back in to sleep on his master's grave, soon became such an object of civic admiration in Edinburgh that the Lord High Commissioner awarded him the Freedom of the City, and the right perpetual to sleep on his master's grave...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the president for civic affairs, said yesterday that one reason for the low appeal of efficiency apartments was that Cambridge already offers a great many of these...
Undoubtedly significant has been Cambridge Civic Association majority representation on the present School Committee. With three of the six members, plus chairman Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, the CCA has met little difficulty in implementing its policies. In the new school construction program, as well as in several other reform measures, the organization has a strong campaign plank. The irony of the present situation is that of the three incumbents, only one, Gustave M. Solomons, is standing for re-election. After its major success in the last election, and after a very constructive two years, the CCA may find itself...
...School campaign, the anti-CCA attack is of the I'm-not-really-against-the-CCA, but . . . variety. A major proponent of this line is Joseph L. Carson, a party Democrat also very active in the campaign to repeal Proportional Representation. To Carson the Civic Association is hypocritical and elitist. He hinted broadly in answer to an opening question that the CCA was responsible for an electoral system "which becomes a lottery at a certain stage . . . . I don't think the people are stupid, but there is little or no grasp of issues--if people are operating under a system...