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...Cambridge Civic Symphony, a recently-formed orchestra of local residents, will give a special performance Thursday evening for Summer School students...
...concert is free to all students with privilege cards, while general admission costs $1.00. Victor Masusevitch, Music Director of the Civic Symphony, will conduct the concert, given as part of the Harvard-M.I.T. summer series...
...blazing triumph, hailed by more than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military parade. A U.S. Army Signal Corps team had installed a White House telephone near by; it had been left on an upturned yellow oilcan. As Ike watched the parade, the phone suddenly jangled...
More than civic pride is at stake in the dwindling city count. As a city's population drops, so does its share of the state and federal tax revenue. San Francisco stands to lose up to $2,000,000 in tax kickbacks because other California cities have grown so fast that they will get bigger portions from the tax pot. New York City figures to lose $1,350,000 in state tax income because it slipped by 242,000 to 7,650,000. Sign of the times: most of what New York loses will go to suburban Nassau...
...wife, the suburban husband develops a big yen to mix in Government affairs at the local level. How can the head of the house, father of the brood, refuse to campaign for school bonds or stand for the board of education-particularly when his firm urges him to be civic-minded? The result is that Suburbia often shines with the kind of topnotch talent that makes troubled big-city fathers wince with envy. In Kansas City's suburban Prairie Village, for example, the $1-a-year mayor is a lawyer with a growing practice, the president of the city...