Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam which appears on today's ballot condemns the war as "not in the best interests of either the American or Vietnamese people." It calls for "the prompt return home of American soldiers...
...opponent, Kevin White has not staged a particularly distinguished campaign, never transcending the anonymity of being simply the good man running against Hicks. He has hedged on the question of racial busing, failing to match the implicit bigotry of Mrs. Hicks' adulation for the neighborhood school with an explicit promise of rapid racial balance for the Boston system...
Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...
Even this year's campaign is fought along such lines. While the results may mean the end of the DeGuglielmo administration, there is relatively little he can do to make his administration an issue. The election must be fought neighborhood by neighborhood, in Brattle Street, in North and East Cambridge, and throughout the City...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, sponsor of the referendum, plans to have 400 volunteers distribute leaflets throughout Cambridge today and tomorrow. On Tuesday the CNCV intends to station poll watchers in every precinct, pass out sample ballots, and provide transportation to the polls...