Word: neighborhood
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Finding such a site has not been easy. Ideally, it should be close to the Houghton neighborhood, to avoid the bussing of children to school, and yet should cause a minimum of inconvenience to persons living near the classrooms. Both the B- School field and a DeWolfe St. Site owned by Harvard and the Archdiocese of Boston appear to meet these criteria. The Houghton PTA has unofficially welcomed the proposed locations...
...McCarthy operation is based on a network of storefronts, neighborhood headquarters, from which door-to-door canvassing is organized. Most storefronts handle up to 50 precincts. Ours, due to the nature of the ward, was to concentrate on only five. It was just the kind of lost cause McCarthy volunteers like best. The Negroes were solidly Kennedy; the whites were basically conservative, leaning toward Branigin and Nixon...
...Brennan slate's one-month, low-keyed campaign involved phone calling, neighborhood stumping, and electioneering at the poll booths. A printed disc with the names of the slate's members and the number of the appropriate polling-machine lever was its only campaign literature. The majority of voters at the polls seemed generally pleased to see college students and housewives at the polls. Their pleasant appearance put the crusty-looking opponents on the defensive. "Members of the incumbent slate there seemed like caricatures," a young housewife who had come to vote for McCarthy commented. "They all looked alike with those...
...Gill, vice-president of the Houghton PTA, which has been pushing for construction of the classrooms, said yesterday that a "sampling" of PTA opinion made her think that "either site would be gratefully accepted" by the parents. "We have a very deep desire to keep the children in the neighborhood and have the school kept as an entity," she said. "Both sites would appear to do this...
...Tuesday's meeting, several residents of the Riverside neighborhood attacked a City Council suggestion that the Corporal Burns Playground near Peabody Terrace would be the best place to put the classrooms. They said that "Harvard would come in and take over the playground" once the classrooms were no longer needed. The School Committee voted against using Corporal Burns...