Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who live in the neighborhood of Central Square aren't particularly faithful to the business area of their community. They pick up everyday commodities there, but Watertown, Arlington, Somerville and Boston rake in their share of Cambridge clientele also. The Central Square Association of Business and Professionals, Inc., is trying to deal with this problem and ethnic Santas are part of the solution. The organization has been around since 1934, but membership has doubled over the past year, to allow for seven committees with five to twelve members apiece. There are plenty of women active in business in Central...
...over Massachusetts Ave. The Association has already planted some trees, which look kind of scrawny, but I guess their height is an asset. Smith says hopefully that the trees "make it look as though humanity can exist around here." Central Square, he explains, has a reputation as a "tough" neighborhood. The bars are one sort of rallying point for the community he's not so sure about promoting...
...kids sent 800 letters to Chicago businessmen, asking them to put the unemployed to work. They even read some of their letters aloud at Mass one Sunday. Wrote Tiannia Easter, 9, to the Peoples Gas Co.: "There are many people out of work in my neighborhood, but I would like you to hire just one for me." George Charles, a department manager for the gas company, was among the many executives who were moved. "It was a very innovative approach," he says. "Luckily, we had some positions coming open." The company has hired one 24-year...
...Bloomingdale's, the flashy department store on Manhattan's East Side. Now, as Christmas approaches, more than 300,000 shoppers weekly?some 60,000 on Saturday alone?surge through the store's eleven floors. While ogling the merchandise, they also eye each other. For Bloomingdale's is both a neighborhood center and celebrity hangout, a place where the next person a shopper bumps into (literally) may be either an acquaintance or someone familiar from a thousand newspaper photographs...
...looking for sympathy, however, and he boils at suggestions that he should retire. "It's tiresome as hell to lose, but I still enjoy the game." He has retreated from the glitter of Manhattan's night life and rents a house in a quiet neighborhood of Garden City, a Long Island suburb. "I've only been to New York City once in the past eight weeks -the traffic's too damn bad," says Namath. But not as rough as the Sunday traffic on the field...