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...stones high, placed far apart in expanses of greebery like "towers in a park." "These skyscrapers," Le Corbusier airily explained, "will contain the city's brains. Everything is to be concentrated in them: banks, business affairs, the control of industry." Beyond the central ring was a civic center, and then a series of belts of apartment houses, with a garden for every apartment. Factories and utilities were relegated to the outskirts, for "in a decent house, the servants' stairs do not go through the drawing room." There were different levels of traffic, ranging from an airstrip to superhighways...
Soon surprised housewives found themselves listening to civic officials solemnly discussing city problems-and many picked up their telephones to prod the politicians. They became fascinated by doctors' explaining hypnosis in childbirth, psychiatrists detailing environmental and hereditary factors in mental illness. Local Announcer John McCormick soothed them by purring Robert Burns's Despondency and Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love...
...Washington with a reputation for getting things done. Back in Louisiana, he had masterminded the financing of the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. He was a leading mover and shaker in the construction of New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, and, as a fortissimo music lover as well as civic leader, he helped spark a fund-raising drive that saved the New Orleans Opera. He earned his claim to a job in the new Administration by belligerently and successfully managing Kennedy's Louisiana campaign last year, in the teeth of stiff states' rights and Republican opposition...
...Mehta's conducting stints, but whether Solti himself was to be boss of his own orchestra. The music critic of the rival Examiner was delighted to write: "Once more Los Angeles has been tumbled from possible artistic eminence to obvious artistic disgrace. Why? Is the Philharmonic Orchestra a civic enterprise ... or is it a private enterprise, dictatorially controlled...
...Canadian schools don't have teams as we do; interscholastic athletics are not stressed. Instead, there are town teams and local hockey programs sponsored by civic-minded groups. Kids from the ages of eight to 13 play in the city park leagues; players up to age 16 play midget hockey; those up to age 18 play juvenile hockey; and those up to age 20 play Junior A. After that, players enter Senior Amateur, intermediate, or professional leagues, or go to college...