Word: bra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the findings might not pertain to the U.S., but Americans are equally ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...
...legislation would return the land that the BRA now owns under eminent domain to the original owners and order the Authority to rehabilitate, rather than destroy, the homes in the area behind the Business School. The bill, introduced in August by Senator Beryl Cohen (D-Brookline), will be considered by the House next week...
Since the BRA tore down 14 houses in August, it has evicted no more residents. The Boston City Council has voted to ask the BRA to halt further evictions until the legislature acts on the pending bill...
Stevan B. Goldin '64-4, who led the anti-BRA forces last summer and was arrested for blocking his own eviction, said he is confident of the bill's passage. But he added that the coming House fight would be tougher than the one in the Senate because (House Majority Leader Robert) "Quinn is one of Logue's boys." Edward J. Logue, Administrator of the BRA, is an appointee of Boston Mayor John F. Collins...
...Hicks could probably delay any significant new building for the next 20 years. The Committee has made a pretense for the last two years of hunting for a site for the new Boston English High School, the "keystone" of any new building program. Gartland has repeatedly suggested a BRA-owned site in Roxbury; it is accessible, available, and the new school would be an asset to the new housing development it would join. But no one listens to Gartland...