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...better or worse, America is a nation of community organizations. Even if we don't all join the Boy Scouts, Kiwanis, and the PTA, the conventional faith remains that we can solve our problems if we only get together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Private Peace Corps | 4/26/1966 | See Source »

...optimistic. "We have ten test areas laid out throughout the country," Weinberger says. "I don't know just how we'll work it, but its got to be done as inoffensively as possible. Perhaps we'll approach student councils, or state student council associations, or maybe even the PTA...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Operation Match | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

...fact, a good part of the cast kept doing things I wouldn't have suspected they'd be up to. Actors with no apparent sense of timing turned out to be marching to a distant crucial drum. Some sooty cripple who would have been booed down at a PTA benefit stuck up her face and said her little pice at, peek-a-boo, just the moment a touch of farce...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Threepenny Opera | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...carries on after graduation. As president Thomas C. Mendenhall says, "A Smith education must remain a privilege in that no graduate can forget the public responsibilities which accompany whatever personal growth her education may bring her." Smith women do not forget. They strive to be suburban community leaders, clubwomen, PTA heads. But their social concern is not only directed along such selfless lines: the Smith woman is famous for being a good wife for an organization man. There is a story, often repeated in this regard, of the rising young IBM executive who was engaged to a senior at Vassar...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: Smith College: The Middle Way | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

...Civil Liberties Committee is also supplying speakers for local PTA groups to discuss right-wing influence and infiltration in local public school teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRLU Committee Plans Measures To Urge Opposition Against HUAC | 12/20/1961 | See Source »

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