Word: neighborhood
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Leaders of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee, the local peace group sponsoring the resolution, don't think the courts can come to a decision in time for the Vietnam question to reach the polls in November. Hans F. Loeser, lawyer for the CNCV, said last night that Trodden's decision to hurry may "prove crucial." "We still need a lot of breaks" to get over all the judicial and administrative hurdles before Nov. 7, he added...
...model-cities and rent-supplement bills are, in fact, the heart of the Administration's cities program. Model cities would concentrate money in selected, hard-core poverty areas, forcing municipal governments to look at a poor neighborhood's problems in their totality. Recognizing that new housing will do little good if everything else in a neighborhood yells poverty, the bill would also provide for the upgrading of schools and such amenities as more frequent garbage collection. Though the Senate cut $125 million from Johnson's request, it still provided $300 million more (for a total...
Sweaty Hands & a Prize. Comfortably settled in an integrated Northeast Washington neighborhood, the Smiths enrolled their only child in the progressive Georgetown Day School, established in 1945 with the aim of forestalling any sense of racial separateness in children's minds. Guy was in a minority, but not by all that much: 30 of Georgetown Day's 100 pupils were Negroes...
Pettigrew expects Mrs. Hicks's additional votes to come from the city's Italian districts, where her neighborhood school idea is popular. In the preliminary election most of these votes went to City Councilor Christopher A. Iannella, He also expects her to pick up votes that went to the other heavy losers in the preliminary--candidates whose political complexion resembles hers. "But even giving her most of these votes leaves her with about 45 per cent. She could pick up one or two more percentage points from a larger turnout," he said...
Vote on Vietnam and The Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam are asking the Middlesex Superior Court to overrule the City Solicitor's decision that the issue is irrelevant to the City and cannot be placed on the ballot...