Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined to become a prostitute in her spare time. And there is Teddy, the five-year-old prodigy who is Author Constable's hero. Teddy uses geodesies to keep track of the neighbors, and if it weren't for him no one would know that the neighborhood children were in terrible danger. How can that be? The answer is not altogether convincing, but neither is the stuff of which most daydreams are made...
Full-time guards cost even more than vandals, so schools are turning to mechanical protection devices such as Chicago's ingenious sound-wave system, whose disruption lights lamps, sets off bells and sirens and alerts everybody in the neighborhood. Because this is so expensive, Chicago generally uses a $12 "Prowl Alarm" that greets intruders with an unearthly howl. But Chicago authorities would prefer putting police dogs in every school...
...election. For the past two summers, whenever the city seemed on the verge of riot, he discovered that merely by being on hand he could often cool a tense situation in the ghetto. "I wanted the people to know," he says, "that this city hall was aware of neighborhood problems...
...razing of the old Wellington and Kelly Schools began last month when the Authority started to execute the locally prepared Neighborhood Improvement Plan. Both schools have been vacant since the construction of the new Harrington School, and the City Council began in May to push for rehabilitation of the neighborhood. The two sites, according to the Authority, are intended for residential development as the first part of the $6-million Wellington-Harrington Neighborhood Improvement program...
...Authority purchased both schools from the City after the School Committee released the Kelly School building from further use. "I am pleased that the demolition of these schools has started, since both schools were abandoned and potential hazards to the neighborhood," Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. commented...