Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been distributed to the Commonwealth's other cities and towns in the spring, and provide additional financial aid for the construction of new imbalance-alleviating schools. But before the School Committee accepted the plan at its Monday meeting, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, School Committee member, defender of the neighborhood school and possible candidate for mayor, got up and read a 17-page statement denouncing, the committee's plan...
...riot broke out at the graduation when a Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
...bill is designed to "ease neighborhood disruptiveness," White said, by providing a three-stage process to phase out discrimination...
Greater activism by the Joint Center is not only needed but also wanted in the community, Moynihan continued. Boston and Cambridge officials do not always seem eager for such assistance. When a non-profit group of academic planners who call themselves Urban Planning Aid (UPA) recently helped a Roxbury neighborhood facing renewal to win concessions from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the BRA's director, Edward J. Logue, denounced UPA as a group of "tinker toy boys" using the renewal program as "an academic exercise." UPA, as it happens, includes two members of the Joint Center and has its offices...
...Room for Bobby. In Manhattan, according to some chroniclers, the trend got started a few years ago when Berney Sullivan improved his small neighborhood bar on First Avenue in the '60s, hired young, good-looking bartenders, and soon built up a clientele of airline stewardesses, teachers and secretaries who attracted a crowd of eligible young admen, lawyers and even a few bankers. Soon Sullivan's place became so jammed that he had to charge admission to keep the crowd down. Next was "Friday's," so called because it opened on Friday and the first customer allegedly came...