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Forever Amberg. The man Newhouse picked to rescue the Globe from its spiritual and economic depression had already accomplished a similar transformation on another Newhouse property, the Syracuse Post-Standard. He is Richard Hiller Amberg, now 48, a grey-haired, hip-shooting combination of businessman, newsman and club-joining civic promoter. On the Globe, Amberg cut production costs, tidied the makeup, concentrated on suburban and local coverage that the internationally minded P-D had begun to neglect, and launched a spate of civic campaigns for better hospitals, better airline service, better traffic safety, and better everything else that would make...
...sharp. He never professed to offer specific proposals, but he impressed many as at least having the right ideas. There was never any doubt where he stood on the standard issues, and he reiterated his stands time and again in forthright language. The changeover from a mayor interested in civic problems to the Senate candidate who must talk on national and international issues presented some difficulties. Because of this problem and also because of O'Connor's excellent record as mayor of the state's third largest city, many politicians and voters wish that he had run for governor...
...mayor bridged the gap between civic servant and foreign policy-conscious candidate through meetings with Harvard professors who supported his candidacy from the start. Samuel H. Beer and Mark DeWolfe Howe apparently saw in O'Connor the makings of a good liberal senator and embraced his cause before the primary. They, and others with ADA leanings, also helped advise him on policy during the heat of the campaign. From them O'Connor picked up facts and opinion that he later combined into his appeal that "everything is not rosy" and that "we must get this country-moving again...
...organized minority group, lodge, or other organizational institution, residents of any state or section of the country, or a commercial organization of any sort. This will be taken to include political organizations; fraternal organizations, college and school groups; labor groups, industrial, business and professional organizations; religious orders; civic clubs, memorial and patriotic societies; philanthropic and reform societies (AntiTobacco League, for example); athletic organizations; women's groups, etc. . . . Where it seems fitting, the characters should reflect recognition and acceptance of the world situation in their thoughts and actions, although in dealing with war, our writers should minimize the 'horror...
...display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with pint-sized furniture and bright pieces of sculpture to be felt and climbed. And each gallery is equipped with pocket-size radio receivers so that a visitor...