Word: germantown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exact location a secret; she has been forced to move once because of county ordinances against trailers. Wherever she goes, her miniature poodle and huge, shaggy Scottish deerhound go too. They have welcomed, and startled, many a visitor to Ray's office in the AEC headquarters at Germantown...
...Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations of communities like Germantown, to the present sprawling conurbation. It diagrams the changing patterns of ethnic distribution. The old Irish, Russian and German neighborhoods have largely dispersed; only the Italians in south Philadelphia and the blacks in the decaying north-central area still cluster together. In short, the guide treats the city...
...Berrigan, both in his action and in his Germantown sermon, has indicated the necessity of resistance and some of the numerous means of carrying it out. "There are a hundred ways of non-violent resistance up to now untried or half-tried, or badly tried, but the peace will not be won without such serious and constant and sacrificial and courageous action on the part of a large number of good men and women. The peace will not be won without the moral equivalent of the loss and suffering and separation that the war itself is exacting...
They seek him here, they seek him there, but Jesuit Priest Daniel J. Berrigan, 49, has become a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel of the antiwar underground. Last week he popped up-uninvited but welcomed-at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pa., to preach peace. The renegade reverend, who last April was supposed to start a 3½-year sentence for destroying draft records, urged the churchgoers to "refuse to pay taxes, and to aid and abet and harbor people like myself so that a solid wall of conscience confronts the warmakers." Before federal agents got wind...