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Cambridge and Boston citizens and civic groups are preparing formal opposition to a plan that would put apartments, research firms or industrial buildings on a 40-acre platform over part of the Charles River Basin...
...will face opposition of a wide variety of groups and institutions, including M.I.T., various yacht clubs, the Cambridge Civic Association, the Citizens Advisory Committee, and the League of Women Voters, as well as a number of citizens...
...reverse the inevitable academic pressure, Harvard must reaffirm its commitment to the sort of liberal education which prepares men for the assumption of public responsibility, in civic affairs, no less and no more than in academic pursuits. If it cannot do this, Harvard College will increasingly become a principally vocational school for scholars and will deprive its society of the worthwhile contribution which many of its graduates have made in the past and must make in the future...
Purges & Chirps. This was not quite the kind of coexistence that Anastas Mikoyan had in mind. Nevertheless, he went right on making his disarming impression. He was solid in Detroit, got his biggest laugh at a private dinner with top industrial and civic leaders when he brought up the subject of laxatives-one of the products that U.S. manufacturers are permitted to sell in Russia. Cracked Anastas, through his interpreter: "I see this is a capitalistic thing, perhaps designed to weaken us. You see, without laxatives, our top people are likely to be disagreeable and more formidable. But with extravagant...
...Council is a group of distinguished citizens which attempts to create an informed opinion on the foreign policy of the U.S. among civic leaders. It supports its own research and has its own staff...