Word: electives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having "substandard housing, pockets of blight, overcrowding and mixed land use, and inadequate facilities." Using the facilities of Harvard and M.I.T., and relying heavily on the judgments of residents in the affected area, the program will attempt to achieve long range stability for the neighborhood. Local residents will elect a majority of the members of the agency which will supervise planning under the grant, and they will be able to vote on any final proposals in a referendum...
Boston Negroes, who constitute only 13% of the population, had the triple satisfaction of defeating Mrs. Hicks and her loyal anti-integration ally, School Committeeman William O'Connor, while helping to elect Thomas Atkins to the city council. Atkins, 28, who has a master's degree from Harvard in Near Eastern studies and is former executive secretary of Boston's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, will be the first Negro on the council in 16 years...
...Excitement. After a cordial election-night meeting with Taft, in which the loser proclaimed Cleveland "the least bigoted city in America" and Mrs. Taft gave Shirley Stokes a bouquet of long-stemmed roses, the mayor-elect named a new police chief, Inspector Michael ("Sledgehammer Mike") Blackwell; a safety director, Joseph McManamon; and a police prosecutor, James Carnes. All three are white. One of the first orders to the police department was to discard the riot helmets that had symbolized hostility to the ghetto dwellers...
...press secretary of last weekend's national convention of College Young Democrats accused Democratic National Committee Chairman John Bailey and New York Democratic State Committee Chairman John Bailey and New York Democratic State Committee Chairman John Burns, "among others," of "putting strong pressure" on delegates to elect a pro-Johnson candidate the new permanent chairman of the organization...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...