Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people everywhere." He also inspired the Christmas Eve reading of Genesis from deep space. Lovell, also 40, whom Borman converted to the Episcopal faith, minds his civic responsibilities too. He is Special Consultant to the President for Physical Fitness. Anders, 35, a Roman Catholic, is secretary-treasurer of his neighborhood property owners' association...
...seeking their hideaways. He found police cruisers on back streets, under bridges and in parks-all with their occupants slouched inside. Some of them even took pillows and alarm clocks with them when they went out on patrol. One sergeant, who used to be in charge of a slum neighborhood recalled: "You'd tell the guys to stay awake, to listen to the radio, but they'd just ignore you." A patrolman who had to drive all the way across his precinct to answer a burglary call one night was dismayed to discover that his was the first...
...like the one much-criticized Hilles Library project, seem well conceived to suit that long-range interest of the community... Not only can these new and renovated houses be more private an flexible, but, also, by incorporating student suggestions for such things as cooking facilities and recreation spots for neighborhood charges, they stand a chance of furthering the movement which Hilles has begun of shifting the intellectual and social center of gravity further north...
...months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...
Only 142 residents of the model neighborhood--a 268-acre area east of Central Square--voted against the program, which was made up of 29 separate projects aimed at improving housing, employment conditions, and social services in the area. 2639 voted in favor of the whole program, while about 400 chose to cast a separate vote on each project...