Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Corporation, a non-profit organization, stepped in as intermediary between the neighborhood and Polaroid. The company struck a compromise and sold the lot at less than cost to the Corporation, who made the proviso that COBI buy the lot within four years...
...announcement came in response to recent requests by the Black Coalition, a federation of groups from New Haven's predominantly Negro Hill section, for funds to start, "neighborhood self-development." Brewster cited the Coalition as the "comprehensive representative of the community," and said that the funds are being given with "no strings attached...
...received word that King had died at the hospital, and he broke the news to the widow in the foyer of the ladies' rest room. Mrs. King returned to the family's modest home on the edge of Atlanta's Vine City, a middle-class Negro neighborhood, where the phone was already ringing with calls from across the country. On hand to help answer was Mrs. Eugene McCarthy, wife of the Minnesota Senator, who had long worked with Mrs. King in ecumenical church affairs. One caller was New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, who had come...
...fact remains that the Memphis police-there were 35 in the immediate neighborhood-muffed their best chance to capture the killer during the minutes immediately after the shot. He escaped in exactly the right direction: the entrance to the rooming house fronted on a street just one block west of Mulberry, across which the shooting occurred. Thus the gunman had eluded the main concentration of police even before he hit the street. Just why he dropped his weapon and overnight bag is a mystery. Though the search spread to a six-state area (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee...
...1880s, in the back room of their neighborhood meat market on Chicago's North Side, the Bavarian Mayer brothers-Oscar, Gottfried and Max-worked hard stuffing sausages. Oscar's wife Louise helped, and their son Oscar G. stood on a butter tub behind the counter to take orders. Weisswurst, Bockwurst, Leberwurst were packed into wicker baskets and piled on horse-drawn wagons to make the rounds. They sold well-enough to send Oscar G. to Harvard, which he left with a Phi Beta Kappa key and ambitions to expand the family business...