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...formal neighborhood organizations exist around the West Cambridge site, which is located in a mixed residential industrial area. so local residents will probably be involved on an ad hoc basis...
Youth's sense of community is an ad hoc thing: it is suspicious of institutions and wary of organization, prizing freedom above system. In this, as in many other ways, the youth of Bethel displayed adherence to the prevailing spirit of the hippie movement. It is true enough that the manifestation of flower power in Haight-Ashbury and the East Village became a bad scene of gang rapes, deaths from malnutrition and too much speed. It is equally true that most of those at Bethel were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least...
...Other Shoe. Gary Player, who has a reputation for being equally sure of himself, lost much of his aplomb at the P.G.A. He was the target of third-round harassment by an ad hoc civil rights group that felt the Dayton Chamber of Commerce might better have applied its energies to the city's ghetto problems than to sponsoring the P.G.A. tournament...
Generous Response. Like the World Council, U.S. churches and synagogues are tending to react to the reparations demand by reviewing and enlarging their social-work programs. Thus, the American Jewish Committee rejected the "Black Manifesto" but is considering a national ad hoc group to help the poor...
...comedy series, it has seemed rather out of place. But last week the Smothers Brothers bobbed up again, bound for the national airwaves. Unlike Joe Namath, they have not been persuaded to rejoin their old employer. They have beaten the ban by forming what amounts to an ad hoc TV network of their...