Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free legal advice and marriage counseling. Gopen says, "When a strange thing like this truck comes on the street, people just come to look. They feel much more at ease here when I'm on their territory than in an office. I've met people living on this block who didn't know the South End House provided job information...
Another program, attacking the economic needs of the South Enders, is the House's cooperative grocery. A group of mothers, dissatisfied with the abnormally high food prices in the South End, got together and began buying truckloads of groceries wholesale. Soon several other neighborhood centers and block associations were putting in orders. Now the cooperative buys over $1000 worth of food each week. According to a VISTA volunteer working in the cooperative, "Families save anywhere from five to fifteen dollars a week on their grocery bill, depending on the size of the family. For people on welfare such a saving...
...North House Committee decided recently to close the North House Lounge, located in the basement of Holmes Hall, because not enough girls had signed up as supervisors. Workers were offered one dollar an hour for a block of three or four hours of supervising...
...Brown rebounded quickly with a goal by Ben Brewster at 8:05. Goalie Axten came diving out through the mud to block a Brown shot and got caught in a pile-up as Brewster picked up the rebound and hit the open net from the right side...
...Arab Socialist friends. Hardly had his plane left the runway of Cairo Airport, when Nasser fired off a cable to the Yemeni capital at San'a. The cable did not actually tell the Republican army to overthrow Sallal, but it instructed Egyptian troops still in Yemen not to block a coup-just in case the army might be planning...