Word: mattapan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methods that it used to delay and stall that decision as long a possible. Saltonstall has certainly been around City Hall long enough to know about political pressures and chicanery. There was no way that Thomas Atkins, the black councillor from Roxbury, or Joe Timilty, who lives in Mattapan, or Jerry O'Leary, from South Boston, or Louise Day Hicks were going to vote for that proposal. The Council is chosen in an at-large election, but on Monday it was ward politics that were talking, and ward politics demand a certain amount of fence-sitting...
...have no hangups now, because I haven't gotten so involved in this thing. I can't afford to become emotionally involved, or I'd end up in Mattapan [Boston State Hospital]. I think my children have helped to keep me fairly stable...