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...eight teenagers were painting the fence around a public building in Cambridge. The Cambridge Chronicle covered the event, headlining its page-one article "New Teen-age Group Seeks Jobs to Build a Better City." What the newspaper did not tell, however, was that one of the civic-minded fence painters was head of the "Monarchs," a local street-gang, and that all eight of the group had long criminal records. Six months earlier local social workers had labeled them "unreachable cases" and abandoned attempts at their rehabilitation...
Besides the bonus offer, the University has set forth other proposals to offset civic opposition caused by the tax situation. The Administration said it would construct not only the one (or perhaps two) new Houses, but also several commercial buildings--a garage, apartment houses, or a bank--which would make at least half the disputed area taxable property...
...with Social Climbers. From that launching pad, Bagwell became a sought-after speechmaker (about 50 per year), joined every civic and scholastic organization in sight. He got into the charmed circle of the Republican Party by phoning friends, who phoned other friends, and their powerful support sent him to the G.O.P.'s county and state conventions. While Republican mossbacks shunned him, Bagwell became the heretic hero of liberal young Republicans, went on to head the state's Citizens for Eisenhower in 1954. He ran for auditor-general in 1956, lost by 32,000 votes...
...Take It Easy, Fellas." The U.A.W. and its parent Michigan A.F.L.-C.I.O. (membership: 800,000) decline to say how much money they are devoting to the cause of John Swainson and John Kennedy. There are no legal limits to their spending for the virtuous civic activity of getting out the vote. In big Macomb County, for example, the union voter-recruiting army bulges into hundreds, and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. pays a bounty of 40? for every new voter. The goal is 40,000 voters, which would cost the union $16,000. On Election Day the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands...
Morro Flight. The dozen underground civic resistance groups of a few months ago are only now beginning to shake down into two major movements: the Democratic Revolutionary Front, headed by oldtime Autentico Politico Manuel ("Tony") Varona, and the younger, more aggressive People's Revolutionary Movement (MRP) of Manolo Ray, 34, Castro's former Public Works Minister. The Front operates from Miami. But the MRP is headquartered in Havana, where Ray, who went underground Aug. 23, is setting up an organization. A few weeks ago he put his engineer's brain to planning a jailbreak from Havana...