Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Challenged in 1948 by Democrat Paul O'Dwyer, the mayor's brother, Javits flooded the district with pamphlets, a comic book that showed him disarming a deranged gunman and saving the neighborhood (pure fantasy), even a brochure in Armenian for the handful of voters who spoke the language. He won by a bare 1,873 votes. It was never quite as harrowing again. In 1950, his margin rose...
Kerry's Corner used to stretch for good distance along the Cambridge side of the Charles. With its multi-family homes, the neighborhood was the natural nucleus for a strong political organization. In those early decided of the century, Harvard had only scattered holdings in the thick think of real estate between chutes Ave. and Memorial Drive. There was some mingling of the two cultures, the ethic lower-class of Kerry's Corner and the richer students of the University. But Kerry's Corner was a product of an earlier and it disappeared, taking with much of the flavor...
...heat of local campaigns there are likely to be anti-Harvard groups, they [the political candidates] may make anti-Harvard speeches. But it has to be very limited, and, in my opinion, subterranean. People don't make public blasts that they might make to small groups or a neighborhood gathering...
...world of City government. It has done so largely through one man, Charles P. Whitlock. As assistant to the President for civic affairs, Whitlock has been Harvard's link to the City's patch-work politics. He attends meetings of the City Council and of many civic and neighborhood organizations. On almost all matters that involve Harvard and the City, he represents the University. But, more importantly, he has carefully cultivated the friendships of political and civic leaders...
...Adams House Senior tutor forbids off-campus students to live on Putnam Ave, because his "impression of the neighborhood is that it is pretty bad." The Young Republicans show some inclination to elect a gorilla as their club's vice-president. The Atomic Energy Commission blames last summer's $1.5 million bubble-chamber explosion on faulty beryllium windows and says that only luck kept it from being worse...