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Surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by an eight-lane expressway, South Boston has long had a sense of isolation and special identity. There is nothing Yankee about the place; the fact that Boston was once a center for the abolitionist movement is irrelevant to Southie's history. For generations it has been the home of laboring Irish immigrant families and their descendants, an ethnic bedrock that has had layers of Poles, Lithuanians and Germans added to it. Southie's sons have worked Boston's docks, driven its trolleys and trucks, built...
Much of the violence took place along Dorchester Street, a four-lane thoroughfare that is the main artery of South Boston, the center of opposition to forced busing. With feelings running high over the busing order, "Southie" swarmed with police, including 300 members of the elite Tactical Patrol Force brought in to disperse crowds and protect the buses bringing black students to the area's previously all-white schools...
...Truman Library, a few miles to the north of Interstate 70, is on Route 24, one of those now typical four-lane highways which take dreary second place to limited-access throughways. New motels, advertising their accessibility to the library, cluster near interstate exists--Hilton, Sheraton, Ramada, Howard Johnson, Travel Lodge, and Holiday Inn. As one leaves the throughway and approaches The Truman Library, Route 24 is lined with used car lots, supermarkets, gas stations, fast food stores, retail outlets, and light industry. The library and the pleasant municipal park across the highway make a striking contrast...
...modest contribution toward the celebration of the nation's Bicentennial, the city of Philadelphia decided to restore to its original state the paving of a block-long passageway called Elfreth's Alley. Certainly no lane in the land seemed more deserving of such loving care. Philadelphians have been living on it since the turn of the 18th century, thus making Elfreth's, or so they claim, the oldest continuously inhabited residential street...
Beaten Look. That the Packers' losing record produced some discontent among players was not surprising. But Devine's aides were a good deal less than fair when they told the community that the team's beefs added up to a major mutiny. Chuck Lane, who has since departed as the Packers' public relations man, still insists: "The players can't stand Devine. They want him out." The players themselves say that their complaints about Devine's strict discipline and lack of strategic imagination fall far short of rebellion; most echo Middle Linebacker Jim Carter...