Word: jamacia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Necessarily, then, any successful candidate is going to have to sway votes in Roslindale, Hyde Park, Allston, Jamacia Plain and Charlestown- sections where one's neighborhood would not get him elected, but where his conservatism could. Since every candidate knows it, they all take the same stands. Naturally, the traditional pattern held up once again. Law-and-order, improved neighborhoods (without urban renewal), better schools, and closer-watched city finances are always successful platforms in Boston, but any serious candidate knows it, so there is little hope of selecting councillors by the issues. And drawing the vote from...
Negro parents responded to the busing edict with Operation Exodus. They privately arranged to bus 300 of their children out of the Roxbury schools which were doomed to over-crowding and possible double sessions. Residents of Dorchester, West Roxbury, Jamacia Plain, Hyde Park, and Roslindale all got a taste of the real thing, as Negro children began to enroll in their schools...
...world. The University extends far beyond the banks of the Charles, or the Medical School in Boston, or the Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. In Massachusetts the University also owns the Harvard Forest and Black Rock Forest (6000 acres) in Petersham, the Bussey Institute for agriculture and horticulture is Jamacia Plain, the George R. Agassis Station in Harvard, Mass, (part of the Astronomical Observatory system), and the Blue Hill Meterological Observatory...