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There is also the voice of the magistrate recording the prosecution of keepers of disorderly houses in Philadelphia's Hell-Town. This changes to his mockery of civic hypocrisy in The Speech of Miss Polly Baker, a superb little satire in which Miss Polly-threatened with public whipping for her bad morals-triumphantly defends her right to bear bastards for the public good...
...people with a sense of civic responsibility can oppose the idea of such an enterprise. No one untainted by hypocrisy can oppose the building on aesthetic grounds. Architecture in the Square is not part of a scheme whose innate unity would be destroyed by the addition of even a very small eyesore. A fifteen story building on stilts would probably not help, but could hardly hinder, the classic beauty of the area...
...prospective Administration appointees. Caplin won a certain reputation as a classy middleweight boxer at the University of Virginia ('37). In later years Caplin's reputation was built on his record as a teacher (former pupils: Bobby and Ted Kennedy), authority on taxation and corporate law, and civic leader; he turned his Charlottesville basement playroom into an emergency classroom for schoolchildren during the "massive resistance" period in 1958, when Virginia closed its public schools. Long a proponent of tax reform, Caplin favors cutting upper-bracket income taxes to 65%, lower-bracket taxes...
...claim many friends in the New Mexico communities near by. Los Alamos' young married couples (average age of the AEC staffer is 39) entertain each other at casual patio dinners where the talk is more dazzling than the food, throng to a suburbia-sized horde (146) of civic organizations ranging from the Flying Saucer Square Dance Club to the Military Order of Lady Bugs. Dress is studiously informal: a woman in hat and gloves is clearly going on a trip "outside." Except on scientific business or for shopping trips to Santa Fe (24 miles away by good highway...
Predicting that cooperation between the two institutions on civic planning would increase in the future, he praised the present joint effort, now under way for six months, as a long overdue step. Planning in the part, has been kept scrupulously separate...