Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page paper that focused on local news and had a circulation of 30,000. After graduation and a tour as a specialist 5 Army information officer in the Viet Nam bush, Graham decided to learn about Washington by spending 18 months as a beat cop in a tough southeast neighborhood. At the Post, he has worked as reporter, salesman, night production manager and sports editor; he also served as a correspondent for Newsweek in New York City and Los Angeles. He became the Post's assistant general manager in 1975, and a year later was named general manager...
Upset over a rash of muggings, rapes and robberies in their New Haven, Conn., neighborhood, ten residents wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper, demanding better police protection. "It is very important to all of us," they said, "that our families remain safe...
...first time we walked out of his home together, the neighborhood kids pelted us with rocks," Mack recounts. Providing some paternal stability in the youth's life is Julian's goal. "It's just the kind of thing I wanted to get into...
...year begins, moviemaking time has come again to Sperry Rand Corp. Up before the cameras steps Chairman Jean Paul Lyet, 61 . He is an accountant who rose out of a brass-knuckle neighborhood of North Philadelphia to become chief of a $4-billion-a-year multinational that sells products from rather simple gyrocompasses to complex Univac computers. And now, the boss is filming his annual report to 89,000 employees round the world...
...police and firemen who rushed to the scene of San Diego's disastrous air crash last September, the tragedy is not yet over. Months after a Pacific Southwest airliner collided with a small plane and plunged into a downtown neighborhood, claiming 144 lives, many of the emergency workers who confronted the human carnage were still trying to shake off the trauma. A few were paralyzed with anxiety whenever they tried to put on the uniform they wore on the day of the accident. Others suffered from hellish nightmares, insomnia, stomach ailments, migraines and partial amnesia about the terrible event...