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...pillar of the community-and a solid pillar he is. "If a dealer isn't interested in his community," says Moran, "then he's a poor businessman. I think that any place I go, I am an ambassador of Courtesy Motors." Moran belongs to many charitable, civic and religious groups, is a prominent Roman Catholic layman. He coaches a Little League team that last season won a district championship, has run several TV talkathons for charity. If an orphanage burned down, chances are that it would be Jim Moran, the Courtesy...
...York Times said that Kennedy, approached by "civic-minded Cambridge citizens," asked Kenneth D. O'Donnell '49, his special assistant, to phone leading state Democrats and "urge" that they veto the bill...
Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to President Pusey for Civic Affairs, revealed that McGeorge Bundy, former Dean of the Faculty and now Kennedy's Special Assistant for National Security, was in town during the furor over the proposed building. According to Whitlock, Cambridge friends of Bundy, including members of the University, asked him to see what influence the White House and its Harvard occupant might have...
Bundy has several friends--including his brother-in-law--in the Cambridge Civic Association, which joined the University in objecting to Sullivan's project. No one at Harvard, however, would deny that pressure upon Bundy came from University officials as well...
Fairbank suggested the Peace Corps as a possible means of educating the politically immature people of Asia toward civic responsibility...