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...family seemed the nation's least likely victims. Herb Clutter, 48, a well-heeled wheat-grower, was just about the most prominent man in the region. He was chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations and Cooperatives, a former member of the federal Farm Credit Board, a civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen-age children, Kenyon and Nancy, were popular, straight...
Those advantages, according to Sullivan, executive of a Boston coal company, include better community relations, financial income, better groundskeeping equipment, and nationwide circulation of the Harvard name "in connection with a civic project." He plans for national television coverage of seven games...
...started modestly enough when, in 1915, the Woman's Club set up an Art Exhibition Committee to improve the quality of art shown at the Arizona State Fair. Even as late as 1940, Art Patroness Maie Bartlett Heard gave the city nearly a full city block for a civic center, only to find Phoenix citizens willing to contribute less than a third of the $1,000,000 required for the buildings...
When Dr. Hunt began opening more doors and taking bars off windows, Dutchess neighbors were worried that AWOL patients would commit sex offenses or crimes of violence. In two years, there has been no such incident. Now Dr. Hunt challenges civic groups: "What Dutchess County community of more than 5,000 people has a better record than that...
...Cambridge Civic Association has won three seats on the six-man Cambridge School Committee, thus essentially keeping the same difficulties in getting a majority it has faced the past two years...