Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impending grant to Cambridge is a federal "Model Cities" grant, which could supply up to 80 per cent of the City's cost in creating a model neighborhood, presumably in working class, low-income sections of East Cambridge. The Model Cities application, submitted last April, could provide...
...Mission Rebels in Action," the new James boys are currently 600 strong and reflect the district's ethnic mixture of Negroes, Filipinos, Samoans, Maltese, Indians and Spanish Americans. Before Jesse came on the scene, most of the whilom rebels were headed for the standard non-careers of the neighborhood-petty crime, gang fights or debilitating welfare living...
...sanctimony, the meetings became a regular thing. James let the kids run their new organization. Soon they were meeting in a Mission district church; then they moved to a three-story warehouse donated by Woodrow Klopstock, a San Francisco real estate investor. The electricians' union rewired the building; neighborhood residents contributed desks, tables and chairs. Marines and Air Force men donated punching bags, while the Rebels themselves decorated the walls with stark drawings and slogans...
...Avenue, away from the noise and neon of Harvard and Central Squares, Kinnaird St. aspires to gentility. The shrubbery and patches of grass are ragged, but the narrow, four-story houses, with clapboards painted in variations on brown, are staid and even attractive. The area looks much as a neighborhood of college students and young Cambridge couples should look...
Judge oseph Mitchell's ruling stated that the petition "is a proper subject for an initiative petition from the citizens of the City of Cambridge." The petition was circulated by the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam--a group whose sponsors include Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government...