Word: civically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...supporter of Los Angeles' mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat and a black. Says Smith's law partner Paul Ziffren, a Democrat active in civil libertarian causes: "Smith has a strong and pure sense of noblesse oblige." Smith's second wife Jean is also heavily engaged in civic affairs; the attorney has four grown children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. Smith is a fastidiously groomed, buttoned-down Establishment figure, but his establishment is open to practically anyone with ability and motivation. That attitude should serve him well in Washington...
...four councilors endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) are pledged to support Cambridge's rent control program. The fifth vote on the nine-member council in favor of rent control has been cast over the years by Alfred E. Vellucci, an independent councilor from East Cambridge...
Pittsburgh has experienced a renaissance over the last ten years. A series of major city block renovations, new civic centers and shopping complexes, parks, theaters, and restaurants have capped a program all aimed at drawing people back into the city. So far it's been successful; young working couples no longer flee to the suburbs, they rent fashionable brownstone apartments in the Shadyside quarter or buy and restore one of many beautiful but dilapidated "Pittsburgh style" houses, built on a grand scale around the turn of the century...
...tenure to Maija Blaubergs [Oct. 6] was scary. It sounds like the beginning of a totalitarian state. Judge Owens is violating the concept of the secret ballot by demanding that faculty members reveal how they voted. Next the Government will want to prohibit secret voting in unions, professional organizations, civic organizations, corporations, and finally in the general elections...
...years later when it was grabbed up by an ex-barkeeper and entrepreneur named Harry Tammen and a rich but tightfisted developer, Fred Bonfils. For the next several decades, the two partners made the Post one of the liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard...