Word: chinatown
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...BORN here in Boston. I was born down on Edinborough St., now it's part of the highway there, in Chinatown it was, Chinatown, we went to the old Quincy School down there, mostly Chinese boys now. Then from there I moved out to West Roxbury, lived out there for a while, my father bought a home out there but he had his business in town, it was quite a job commuting between West Roxbury and Boston, quite a distance you know. He had a wholesale dry goods business in Boston...
...Urban League believes that it has just begun to explore the possibilities of the street academies. Eventually, director Oostdyk hopes to have his all-girl academies sponsored by cosmetics firms, or a Chinatown academy supported by, perhaps, Northwest Orient Airlines. He foresees clusters of street academies surrounding each ghetto public high school, gathering up the dropouts and drawing out their full potential. "The people of the ghetto are very susceptible to change," he says. "You can't stop a bad idea on the streets, but you can't stop a good one either. Here...
...fabled glamour of its topless towers and clanking cable cars, San Francisco is a city of anguished minorities. They range from the black ghetto of Hunters Point, scarred by riot in 1966, to the hippie enclave of Haight-Ashbury, from the convoluted alleys of Chinatown to the psychedelic strip-and-clip joints of North Beach, encompassing en route labor unions, symphony lovers and Mayor Joseph L. (for Lawrence) Alioto, 52, the millionaire son of an immigrant Sicilian fisherman.* Last week, a scant 2½ months after assuming office, Joe Alioto was well on the way to opening the Golden Gate...
...Chinatown editor explains their stoicism by saying: "Newcomers have a hard time here for the first ten years, but after that you have a nice car and a nice home and can educate your children, so you don't care." Claiming that higher union wages are not practical in so cutthroat an economic situation, a sweatshop spokesman warned: "You may wipe out an industry with a $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 yearly payroll." Nevertheless, Chinatown residents feel increasingly that the long and patient wait for affluence may be in keeping with Mao-think, but not with life...
...Which points out that seamstresses in Manhattan's Chinatown, the nation's second largest Oriental community, are almost completely unionized, make $2.30 an hour plus overtime after a 35-hour week, and wield correspondingly greater political influence...