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The controversial proposal to found a theatre and arts center on Soldiers Field Road was approved last week by a 3-2 vote of the Metropolitan District Commission.
Though the Commission rejected Cook's motion for broader representation, Chairman Charles W. Greenough said he would request the arts center to set up a "theatre advisory group" including representatives of Group 20, the Poets' Theatre, the Brattle Theatre, and other such groups in the Boston area.
For weeks Judge Wallace, 39, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam") and a defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate last year, had been fighting efforts of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he...
At first, the uproar had not seemed much more than the complaining of a few free-spirited tribal chiefs aroused by the tax collectors. A Royal Commission sent out from the capital in Rabat reported that the trouble was mainly economic and social-the tribesmen felt they were being treated...
The Federal Trade Commission last week issued a progress report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60...