Word: coby
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Corporation is taking its pledge of encouraging local groups to do the work very seriously. It will not initiate any program nor will it jump into one uninvited. Recently it was approached by COBI (the Conference of Organizations, Blocks, and Individuals)--a group formed by the people in Cambridge's area number 4, now part of the Model Cities program. When COBI asked the Cambridge Corporation for technical advice on solving the housing problem and lack of recreational facilities, "we were more than delighted to comply," Brooks says...
...Corporation helped COBI draw up a physical plan for improving the neighborhood (a plan which was eventually incorporated into Cambridge's successful model cities application). But COBI still looked on the Corporation with more than a measure of suspicion...
...chance for the Corporation to prove where it stands has come fairly early. COBI was faced with its first fight when it discovered that the Polaroid Company had bought a vacant lot with the intention of turning it into a parking lot. The residents wanted to use that area as a play lot, since recreational facilities in that area are very scarce. Nor is this a problem specific to area number 4. One residential area after another has had to watch