Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOOKING DOWN GAME, by Leigh Dean, illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). When Edgar moves into a new neighborhood with no friends, he makes up a secret "looking down game," and discovers beetles, patterns in floating leaves, ants and a bird's nest. All year he plays his game until a new friend takes his hand and helps him up a tree. Then Edgar, a black city child, finds a new and even more exciting world to explore...
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES. One of the functions of a residential college is to emancipate the young from the inevitable limitations of their home and neighborhood before it is too late. Even a superb academic program is unlikely to move most students very far if they return every night to home and mother...
Sixteen of the CDA's members will be residents of the model neighborhood chosen in special elections. The other eight will represent the City government, universities, businesses, and private charitable agencies...
Under the ordinance, the CDA "shall have exclusive authority to make and provide for the carrying out of plans for the Cambridge Model Cities program," subject to the approval of its plans by a referendum in the model neighborhood. The CDA will also hire, set wages for, and fire all Model Cities employees in Cambridge, in consultation with Justin M. Gray, assistant to the City Manager for Community development...
During the next two or three weeks, residents of the model neighborhood, located east of Central Square, will nominate their candidates for the resident seats on the CDA. Elections will be held either on June 8 or June 15, according to Gray...