Word: neighborhood
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...parents, black and white, got together and forced the Boston school system to provide equal education, you could keep your children in your neighborhood and I could keep my children in mine. Instead, my children get up at 5:30 a.m. They leave at 6:30 a.m. to catch a bus out to the suburbs. They arrive home after 4 p.m. My five-year-old spends 2¼ hours in school and two hours in transportation every...
Deputy Chief of Detectives William J. Averill, 62, arrives at 9:30 to command the operation and deploys hundreds of officers, many of them volunteers, who are gathering from all over the city after hearing the news. Sergeant Reddy, who ran the precinct's neighborhood police team, was popular in the tough, polyglot area of Puerto Ricans, blacks, whites and Chinese. The police get cooperation. By 4 a.m., when Averill returns to his office, he has concluded that he is looking for two Hispanic males in their 20s. One, not the killer, is called Frankie, last name unknown...
Timilty, however, demonstrated the depth of his support by winning in areas of the city with deep anti-busing sentiments, South Boston and Charlestown, in addition to carrying his home neighborhood, Hyde Park, and nearby Dorchester. Timilty was also helped by the rain, which probably held down turnout among elderly and black voters, two groups which have consistently supported White in the past...
...opposed to forced busing, but unable to entirely capture the allegiance of the anti-busing forces. The results of the preliminary bore this out: Timilty won in South Boston by a margin of less than 3 to 2. Louise Day Hicks, a strong anti-busing candidate, carried that neighborhood by 2 to 1 over White in the 1971 preliminary...
Designed by Sasaki Associates of Watertown, the Forrestal Center will include in addition to sites for industrial plants and office buildings 1600 housing units, a 400-room hotel and convention center, and a small neighborhood shopping center, Hire said. Current tenants of the center include the R.W. Johnson Foundation, RCA Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation and the Dow Jones Corporation...