Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King of Roxbury, past Candidate for the Boston School Committee, will be speaking at P.B.H. at 8 p.m. tonight. He is the campaign manager for Carmelo Iglesias, a community resident who is challenging the seat of John McCormack, Speaker of the House, from the ninth Congressional district...
...have been drawn to "BossTown," as they call it, are not so ambitious. Moreover, as in San Francisco and New York, the hippie ranks have been infiltrated by hoodlums and narcotics peddlers. "They aren't the classy hippies, the beatniks or bohemians," says Detective Sergeant Richard Crowley, whose District 2 includes the Common. "Many of them are just criminal types." Police have become alarmed by the peddling and use of drugs in the Common, and since April 1, some 600 hippies-or pseudo hippies-have been arrested on rape, robbery and narcotics charges, or for violating park rules. When...
Goldbrick Boredom. Motiveless "busywork," the lowly chores of military housekeeping, and menial jobs that fall short of the challenges of civilian life are principal causes for low morale where it is found among reservists. "Our daily routine," fumed Sergeant Robert A. Levy, a District of Columbia Air Guardsman at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, "consists of reading magazines and newspapers, listening to the radio, playing cards, organizing and participating in chess tournaments, visiting the base gymnasium, pitching horseshoes and taking coffee breaks." Levy, who was president of a Maryland computer consulting firm until he was called...
Boredom prompts men to take pride in goldbricking, inducing added ennui. Even the crack 120th TFS at Phan Rang has an accountant and a graduate in English slinging hash, a school principal pulling security guard, and a Denver assistant district attorney slaving as a clerk in the base legal office...
Such stockpiling leads allied intelligence officers to believe that the next attack on Saigon will be longer, better coordinated than before and aimed at striking deeper into the capital-at the First District, the downtown seat of commerce and government. They also believe that attacks will be made at the same time on smaller cities the length of South Viet Nam, as in the Tet offensive. Allied units have reported buildups of Communist troop concentrations, for example, in the vicinity of both Hue and Danang...