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Drawn up in battle against the anti-PR forces is the Cambridge Civic Association, the city's partisan answer to a non-partisan political situation. With some historical justification, the CCA can emphasize that the institution of PR contributed to the abolition of the old, corrupt machine and offered the voter a more democratic means of electing those candidates whose ideas most closely conformed to his own. Because there are no primaries, the ballot is large and the consequent selection diverse...
...University is not basically opposed to the idea of suitable apartments on that location," Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said yesterday. Whitlock said that suitable apartments might provide more housing for married graduate students...
Died. Nathan Straus, 72, civic-minded scion of a New York mercantile clan which built its fortunes on Macy's and Abraham & Straus, a sometime journalist (Puck, the old New York Globe) and first administrator (1937-42) of the U.S. Housing Authority; in Massapequa...
...Trujillo, 56, third wife of assassinated Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, stopped off at New York's Idlewild airport along with five grandchildren whom she was shepherding toward a Swiss school. Ignoring a crowd of 300 demonstrators who spat and shouted "Bloody murderers," the matronly authoress (Moral Meditations, Civic Meditations) attributed the current precarious peace in the Dominican Republic to "the affection the people bore my husband," but "categorically" rejected all talk of a continuation of the dynasty by the current commander of the republic's armed forces, Son Rafael Jr., 32. "As a mother," explained Senora...
Married. Lucy Monroe, 49, whose lyric soprano rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner has opened thousands of civic whingdings (World Series ball games, national political conventions, etc.); and Harold Marc Weinberg, 51, Manhattan attorney; both for the first time; in Manhattan...