Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great mahogany doors of the House Ways and Means Committee flew open, and a dozen Senators and Representatives shouldered their way through the newsmen outside. None of them would say what had transpired. That was up to the potentate whose name Mr. Mills is affixed in gold block lettering on the chamber's entrance...
...five days a week. By the end of summer, as Stevens' example spread, 2,000 Negro youngsters were regularly and happily splashing in 22 private pools. With the help of volunteers, both black and white, Cleveland Adman Frank T. McDonough, 64, re-sodded lawns in a seven-block area in Hough, the city's ghetto. He has since marked 40 more blocks for the same treatment. "Some day I knew I was going to see my Maker," said McDonough, a devout Roman Catholic, "and he would say: 'You knew what was going on, what...
...Cruelty to Children, the Boston Park Department Office. The Offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State House, The Unitarian-Universalist Association, The Massachusetts Prison Association, Portia Law School and Calvin Coolidge College all sit on the peak of Beacon Hill. It is a tiny two-block neighborhood and for the most part, the institutions that reside there are devoted to enriching the lot of human beings. "So," says one Beacon St. resident, "how did Calvin Coolhitch Cowitch evah get up heah...
...school's 100 students, hired a lawyer who will move against the Trustees in the event of a phase-out. The plan to save the college, which has the endorsement of the college's dean, involves affiliating with Newton's Mount Ida Junior College. The chief stumbling block in the affiliation plan is that Calvin Coolidge and Portia would name only a minority of the trustees of the new board. "But our trustees just don't want to relinquish power," says Coolidge student body president Pat Vinti of Chelmsford...
...hard School Committeemen such as James Fitzgerald, who oppose the portable classrooms per se, may attempt to block approval of these sites. The School Committee should ignore them, and accept Harvard's offer. If there is to be a final round in the portable classrooms fight, it should be fought in the open, when the City debates the appropriation for the classrooms. The quibble over site selection is now pointlessly delaying the construction of the new Houghton School...