Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critical of Kennedy as he can be within the framework of their similar ideo logical positions. "I didn't have much to lose," says Moynihan of his only try for elective office. "It was like a $2 bet at the races." He lost the bet-Queens District Attorney Frank O'Connor defeated him handily. The day after the election, the telephone rang: the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center asked him to be director. Moynihan decided to spend a quieter year first, took a fellowship at Wesleyan (in Connecticut), then accepted the center's offer...
...creation of several self-contained neighborhoods-complete with schools, theaters, shopping centers and parks. Along these lines, Mayor John Lindsay's task force on urban design suggests that New York City, rather than pack even more skyscrapers into midtown Manhattan and Wall Street, should create a major business district along Harlem's 125th Street. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in fact, has encouraged the move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building two 110-story skyscrapers for the World Trade Center...
...When I'm pregnant, it's just like taking dope," said the Negro woman bearing her ninth child at the District of Columbia General Hospital in Washington. "I can hardly wait to get home so I can get some more starch," she added, referring not to starchy foods but to laundry starch. "Sometimes I'll eat two or three boxes...
Frank J. Park, execuive director of the CAC contends that in the next five years thousands of people will be visiting the library and the Brattle-Mt. Auburn St. commercial district will be greatly expanded...
...neon sign that tops the 16-story New China Products Department Store in the crowded "Suzy Wong" district of Hong Kong was behaving very erratically last week. Sometimes it shone brightly in advertisement of its wares -and at just such times mobs of Communists surged through the streets in a destructive frenzy. At other times, the sign went dark, and the crowds knew that the police were coming. The sign was just one device used by the Communists to signal their followers when the coast was clear and when to watch for the cops during the worst week of rioting...