Word: faneuil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 150 years ago, the Hartford Convention proposed returning defense responsibilities to the separate states in protest against the War of 1812; New England is now in the vanguard of M-day. Boston lawyers decided to meet in historic Faneuil Hall, and then stand by, wearing green arm bands, to provide on-the-spot legal assistance if needed at an afternoon rally on Boston Common. Republican Governor Francis Sargent, who says of Viet Nam that "the want-to-get-out sentiment has grown rapidly," was to address a peace rally on the town green in suburban Lexington, where...
...public business, contain windows at which citizens can file complaints, get licenses, argue over assessments, and register to vote. Slung through the belly of the building, with hooded windows projecting outward, are the ceremonial rooms: on one side, the city council chamber; on the other, overlooking nearby historic Faneuil Hall, the mayor's office. Administrative work will be performed away from the bustle below in four projecting tiers of clerical offices that serve as the building...
...city licenses all the pushcart men. Many years ago, almost anyone could get a license. Friday morning before the market opened, the vendors would line up at the base of Faneuil Hall (just across Dock Square). At a signal they would race across the Square with their pushcarts, trying to get to the best sites on Blackstone Street. Words and sometimes assorted vegetables, were exchanged in the competition. After a few carts, tomatoes and apples went spinning across the pavement, the City decided to license only a fixed number of "regulars." They occupy assigned sites on Blackstone Street until they...
...Cambridge Street. In front a three-piece office building is rising, and below that is the plaza and foundation of new City Hall. To the right is the end of Washington Street, an easy connection with the department store sector. Two permanent landmarks edge the project--Sears Crescent and Faneuil Hall. Will citizens freely exchange political ideas in the government plaza? Will modern architecture and a combined location make local government more effective here? No one is sure. But a most awesome, heroic scaled sculptural effort to give government a new Center is emerging...
While Swarthmore students were putting pressure on their administration to withdraw funds from Chase Manhattan, Aggrey Awori '65 lamented Harvard's indirect investments in South Africa at Faneuil Hall last evening...