Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House, which functions mainly as a Unitarian-Universalist church. Located at 70 Charles Street, the building is a handsome brick one in the Federalist style; erected in 1807, it was designed by Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), who was responsible for the even more impressive Old West Church and several Beacon Hill houses as well, and was Boston's foremost architectural contemporary of the great Charles Bul-finch...
...Hicks. Another strong candidate is Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, a man of honest Irish antecedents though he has, as they say in the lace-curtained flats of South Boston, "turned blue"-i.e., taken to mixing with the Yankee aristocracy. But both Logue and White will probably lose Beacon Hill and Back Bay votes, which they badly need, to Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar John Sears, the first Republican who has had the temerity to run for mayor of Boston in 18 years...
...BostonTranscript, voice of the Beacon Hill Brahmins, was badly hurt in the depression, yet its publisher dragged on until 1941. Finally, but only after months of pathetic appeals for financial aid (some of which actually appeared in the Transcript), the paper went under. In 1956, the Boston post, the strident and powerful voice of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts and once the nation's third largest paper, died. ThePost's publisher, John Fox, so firmly believed in the Post's importance as the Democratic standard bearer that he twice managed to revive the paper, in one case after it hadn...
...into an exploring American patrol and killed nine of its ten members. In two other clashes in the northern coastal provinces of the country, U.S. troops killed 130 of the Viet Cong's black pajama-clad regular soldiers, lost only six of their own men. During Operation Beacon Torch in Quang Nam province, U.S. Marines killed 57 North Vietnamese. During the battle, ten leathernecks also fell...
Many people in the city had believed that Boston would escape serious trouble altogether. Though Roxbury is not exactly Beacon Hill, Boston's black belt is far less dismal than most Negro ghettos. It has less than half (6.9%) the unemployment of Cleveland's Hough, 10.5% higher average family income ($4,200) than Los Angeles' Watts, and a relatively stable history, with many Negroes tracing their Roxbury roots back several generations. Yet obviously, as Negro Senator Edward Brooke pointed out, both the resentments and the problems were there in abundance. "The course they decided to follow...