Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered contributing to political campaigns," LaFarge said, "but there was too much disagreement as to which campaigns to support. We wanted some neutral but worthy cause, preferably one that was relatively obscure and in need of help." Most of the gift will go to the Nationai Strephosymbolia Foundation...
LAST SPRING, shortly after the death of Rev. Martin Luther King, Donald E. Sneed, president of the new Unity Bank and Trust Company in Roxbury--the first bi-racial bank in New England--spoke in Hilles Library at Radcliffe. He was angry then, and one couldn't help but be struck by his overwhelming determination. He told a spellbound audience of 200, "We are going to be the fastest growing commercial bank in New England and everybody is going to help. If you don't help, someday you're going to sit back and say, 'I should have listened...
Intense concern was reflected on Fulp's face as he described some of the individuals who enter his tiny office seeking help. He views everyone as a person with a problem and no one is sent away without some advice, even if Unity can't help. He told the story of one man who came in, seeking a lawyer because his son had been drafted. "Because he worked on a job that his credit union thought would be phased out, he was denied a loan," Fulp said. "That man had held the same job for 20 years and the possibility...
Given the fact that "The Experience" is being funded through a federal grant the Boston Redevelopment Agency has received as part of an experimental urban beautification program, one can't help but suspect the city is really trying to drive the hippies away for good by giving them too much of their own medicine. If the attempts stay this tepid, boredom may become Boston's secret weapon...
...good jobs come and go, you know. For instance what is the job that's most popular today? Why prob- ably going to help Negroes in the ghettos. Well, that is a job like any other job, and we think it's very important...