Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which blends in with West Cambridge as the upper-class academic, professional set. Northwest down Mass Ave lies North Cambridge, a heavily Irish Catholic region where the Speaker can be seen strolling the streets on an occasional Saturday afternoon. To the Northeast past MIT is East Cambridge--a tight-knit mix of Italians and Portuguese, with a recent influx of Haitians. The colorful, outspoken Al Vellucci, 36 years a city councilor and currently the mayor lives there And to the south lies Cambridgereport, once tapped as one of Lyndon Johnson's model cities, now a poor region with a high...
Vigne carefully shows both sides of this close-knit life. He frequently underscores the stability and supportiveness of life in the village: in one particularly touching scene, a women called on to testify about Martin's identity lovingly pulls aside his hair to show a scar from a childhood injury. Such intimacy is wondrous, and somewhat disquieting, to urbanities who often don't know their next-door neighbors...
...duplications of service. Mormons from Rexburg, Idaho, though eager to lend a hand in Utah, have been told by church officials that they are not yet needed. Says Elder Robert E. Wells, an executive administrator in the church: "We're always organized for emergencies. We have a tight-knit ecclesiastical order from the grass roots...
...about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days of weightlessness. The Challenger team members share an office at the Johnson Space Center. They practice endlessly in the shuttle cockpit simulator, rehearsing every conceivable facet of the mission, including possible emergencies. They have come to be as close-knit as a family, even to the extent of protecting Ride from an overly inquisitive press. When she quietly married fellow Astronaut Steve Hawley last July (he will fly on the twelfth shuttle flight with Resnik), her Challenger comrades respected her wish to keep her private life private...
...Shelby constructed a 40,000-seat arena for a Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons fight, only to have trouble raising the $300,000 guarantee required by Dempsey's rascally manager Jack ("Doc") Kearns. ("Give Doc 1,000 Ibs. of steel wool," it was said, "and he'll knit you a stove.") Barely 7,000 people paid to see the fight: the rest crashed the fences. Two banks failed. The town virtually bankrupted itself. And Dempsey beat Gibbons, who was not paid...