Word: mattapan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...district is newly-created and will become an effective senatorial district this year. It covers an area including Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan...
...press conference Monday in Roxbury, Fletcher said his group would attempt to close any project in Roxbury, Dorchester, South Boston, or Mattapan where UCCW referrals were not hired...
...best place to begin an investigation of Boston's subways, expecially if you're starting from Harvard, is the Red Line, which runs from Harvard Square to Ashmont, Quincy and Mattapan. The Red Line is Boston's most basic subway from the aesthetic point of view. There are no frills (except for the new cushion-seat cars which are the pride of the system)--the Red Line specializes in gutsy subway travel. There are long stretches of dark tunnel, heavy use of underground stations, and a quick, noisy speed between stations. The Red Line is best for deep reflection...
...kids in those camps are from the Lower East Side, and they have to know how to protect themselves. We were working in Boston on protecting elderly Jews in Mattapan and Dorchester who were getting attacked on the street just like the kids in the camps were. The JDL has done a lot to inspire the young Jews in America and to get Russia to let the Soviet Jews emigrate." Defending world Jewry is, for Bloom, a very important and very serious business, especially where Israel is involved. Bloom called Israel "the only country in the world faced with total...
Wichita is as far from Boston's Dorchester-Mattapan section as it is from the Deep South. It is a prairie city, at 300,000 the largest in Kansas, a center of oil and agriculture, a major aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production...