Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro. Such a shock, in fact, that he snatched the key, threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block, and a home-cooked meal that moved Beverly to tears. "Bless you all," beamed Flood...
...friends, Mike headed for an ice cream parlor to celebrate. Up drove Edward Weissman, 19, a factory worker, who shouted flirtatiously at one of the girls. Hot words followed. According to police, Weissman gunned his motor, drove straight at the group, hit Mike Schaffer and dragged him half a block to his death. Weissman never stopped. So stunned was one witness, the father of another City College player, that on leaving the police station he died of a heart attack...
...substantially complete one of the nation's biggest chunks of center-city reconstruction in 30 years?a $120 million complex of transit and bus terminals, hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
Baltimore has also worked a small miracle of rehabilitation in a Negro district, 32 blocks of 2,000 dilapidated houses known as Harlem Park. By cleaning out old shacks and what were once servants' quarters, the city gave each block the choice of whether it wanted to use the liberated space as a playground for children or as a postage-stamp park for adults. House owners were given expert advice and help in floating loans and making repairs and improvements. The result has been dramatic. "Harlem Park is no Georgetown," says Richard L. Steiner, director of the Baltimore Renewal...
Miss Davidson said her wallet, without the money, was returned today by some youngsters who reported finding it a block away on Shepherd Street...