Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over 600 people protested the lack of safety for children in the Boston Public Schools yesterday at noon at City Hall Plaza...
Next week the assembly will open a new office in the basement of Harvard Hall. Harvard will provide furniture and filing cabinets for the office, Pfeffer said
...executive committee also voted to support today's rally at city hall and citywide boycott of Boston elementary and high schools. The citywide Parents Advisory Council is promoting the boycott...
...Down the hall at the newstand, they are hawking papal t-shirts, bumper stickers, decals, ribbons, and anything else they can find. It is about 1:45 p.m., and the line-up begins. Cameramen use their tripods and lenses, some big enough to polevault with, to clear away the opposition. But the Secret Service is checking all bags. We descend two very gray, concrete flights of steps and peek out into the mist. God is spitting on Logan airport as we find our places and, like everybody else, go running for the front row. They're not checking boarding passes...
...symbolic events continued each evening. Banquets in the capital took place in the gigantic Great Hall of the People that commemorates the Communist takeover. Each Chinese at the table concentrated on making sure every American plate was filled with heaps of food. And then, of course, came the endless rounds of toasts. We drank mao-tai, that deadly brew which in my view is not used for airplane fuel only because it is too readily combustible. I received graphic proof of this when Nixon on his return to Washington sought to illustrate the liquid's potency to his daughter Tricia...