Word: council
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voraciously read the Horatio Alger stories as a boy growing up in Minnesota. He also acted out the plots. While in high school he scrambled out of bed daily at 4 in the morning to deliver newspapers, and he both edited the school newspaper and served as student council president. After that he worked days in an insurance office while attending, at night, the University of Minnesota and then the St. Paul College of Law, from which he graduated magna cum laude. "We had enough to eat and enough to wear," says a younger brother, Paul. "But I suppose...
...coming, some progress is also being made in eliminating conditions that promote unrest. Unemployment is at its lowest point in 15 years. Although there has been no major infusion of federal money recently, expanded recreation, job and housing programs are under way in many cities. The Youth Advisory Council of Greater Los Angeles is coordinating federal, state and local job programs, and the State Employment Service plans to find jobs for all graduating high school seniors before they have a chance to waste the summer. A Model Cities program has been launched in Watts, and Lockheed Aircraft has dedicated...
When a 163-ton abstract metal sculpture by Pablo Picasso was unveiled in the plaza of Chicago's Civic Center two years ago, one official was outraged. Describing the work as a "rusting junk heap," Alderman John Hoellen demanded in a resolution to the city council that it be dismantled. In all seriousness, he suggested replacing it with a 50-ft. statue of that modern folk hero and living symbol of a "vibrant city": Chicago Cub Infielder Ernie Banks...
Philadelphia is a town that takes its Squaresville role seriously (". . . and second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia"). When I Am Curious (Yellow) opened last month, Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo turned I Am Furious (Purple) and denounced it as "unadulterated filth." The city council majority leader, George X. Schwartz, went further: "I call on ministers, rabbis and priests to call on their congregations to boycott this film. If this picture is continued, God knows what will come next in Philadelphia...
...foolhardy enough to make speeches is fair game for the press. CIA Director Richard Helms learned that the hard way when he tried to speak off the record to the Business Council at the Homestead Inn in Hot Springs, Va. Arguing that anything Helms had to say to 125 of the nation's top business executives could hardly endanger national security, reporters pleaded with the CIA chief for at least a briefing. They even carried their complaints to the Administration's communications director, Herb Klein, in Washington. Helms turned Klein down...