Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cities seems over, for now, and peaceful Black Panthers run for political office. In Chicago, neighborhood meetings are more calm, though the problems which once aroused great passion have not disappeared. The issues discussed are the cross-town expressway and the extension of rapid transit. The police are under more attack than ever, but not for murder--only for scattered brutality and conscientious shake-down of tavern owners. Arlen returns to the house on West Monroe Street where the Panthers lived. A man is repainting the window trim. "Did something happen here?" Arlen asks. "Was it important?" An American verdict...
...ACORN is currently fighting the Wilbur Mills expressway which will go right through low-income neighborhoods in Little Rock...
...setting is New England's largest housing project--some 1500 units in 37 buildings, tall brown-orange buildings visible from Boston's Southeast Expressway and isolated from Boston by that route on one side and Dorchester Bay on the other three...
...drove in from the suburbs to golf asked us if we wanted to go to college we said yes, but Dave privately confided that he didn't really want to. And Jerry Kruskowski who lived down Dave's block and went to St. Francis in the shadow of the expressway laughed and said that he didn't either. Maybe they would go into the army together Dave said, and laughed. Jerry's brother was in Nam and high school was a bore; geometry boring and math and no one cared anyway, not their parents or the teachers or anyone...
...Michael Gerchenson, 19, a sophomore at Southern Illinois University who was found shot to death in May on a stretch of highway near West Frankfort, Ill., and Specialist Five William Richter, 23, who was fatally shot in September while sleeping in a pickup truck parked next to an expressway in suburban Chicago...