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...letter made public yesterday, the Cambridge Civic Association strenuously urged opposition to "the sale of any part of Cambridge Common for private profit." Signatures included those of President Pusey, President Bunting, and James R. Killian, chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation...
U.J.A. employs no outside professional fund raisers. Instead, the small, fulltime staff relies on Jewish civic and business leaders with a proud sense of Judaism's traditional willingness to take care of its own. U.J.A.'s fund raisers sell hard and sell soft, specialize in massive telephone assaults on their business friends and fund-raising lunches at which big donors exert moral pressure on the reluctant by publicly announcing their pledges. The drive is conducted in 3,500 communities, with New York City's 2,500,000 Jews generally the highest contributing, followed by Chicago...
Meyerhoff spends nearly as much time on civic causes as he does on construction: he is president of the city's Associated Jewish Charities (which last year raised $3,100,000 for worthy causes in both Baltimore and Israel), presides over the State Planning Commission. Although he builds no houses in Israel, Meyerhoff is also president of the Palestine Economic Corp., which has raised $11 million for private investment in Israeli industry since 1948. "In my family," he says, "we took for granted that being a Jew and being interested in what was first Palestine and is now Israel...
Mayor Wagner and outraged civic groups are protesting the court's order demanding it be over-ruled. Such hysterical reactions to Rockwell are silly. And quite apart from the publicity he gets from this opposition, publicity which his kind of movement thrives on, muzzling the Nazi leader is a violation of his constitutional right to free speech. Suppression of speech by prior restraint is an evil, and putting up with people like Rockwell is the price we pay for having defenses against...
...problem of the newspapers is not confined to Boston alone: there are scarcely a half dozen readable, informative daily papers in the entire United States. One Cambridge resident prominent in public affairs, who is particularly distressed about the Boston newspaper situation and its effect on the city's civic life, says he reads the Times of London to keep up with international news. The American daily newspaper is dying at an impressive rate: 76 papers have gone out of existence in the past five years, with three major dailies--the Cleveland News, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph and Detroit Times--and nine...