Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went back to question Weinstein, they discovered he had fled. In the next several days, as half a dozen students came forth to describe their own encounters with Weinstein, it became apparent that the chubby, jolly co-owner of Ye Olde Tobacconist shop was more than just a friendly neighborhood storekeeper...
Death at an Early Age is based on Kozol's eight-month service as a $20-a-day substitute teacher at the Christopher Gibson School in the mostly Negro Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. A summa cum laude Harvard graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, Kozol was badly shaken by the experience-which ended abruptly when he was fired after reading to his class a poem by Negro Langston Hughes that was not on the teachers' approved reading list; it suggested that tenement tenants might justifiably put the slug on their landlords...
Most observers attribute Ackermann's strong showing to the voters who turned out to vote in favor of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war petition. The votes on the petition will not be couned until Nov. 28. A similar petition on the San Francisco ballot Tuesday lost by a 2-1 margin...
...Hick's 10 p.m. concession speech, "The world is rotten; rotten right to the middle of the core. It's really rotten." The last few hears haven't been good ones for the people who supported Louise Day Hicks; first the Establishment got the Commonwealth to overturn the Neighborhood School idea with the racial imbalance law; and last night it spoiled the victory party by getting Kevin White elected Mayor. "The Establishment--you know, the bankers and the reporters," said a lady in a frilly blue party dress, "that's what licked...
...White is no parochialist. He recognizes how bad Boston public schools are, and has resolved to make them better. White has shown a sympathy for the problems of racial minorities with a series of sensible position papers asking for neighborhood social service centers and similar improvements. He has the confidence of the financial community which has helped rebuild Boston and whose help the city will have to enlist in taking on urban problems that still remain...