Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there, and ten years later he finally won a degree in education. At matriculation, he listed his religion as Unitarian, and for a time linked himself to the Methodists, but the first church he founded, called the Christian Assembly of God, had no affiliations. It was in a poor neighborhood, and he won worshipers by distributing free food and helping people find jobs. He raised money by importing monkeys and selling them for $29 apiece. He eventually made enough to pay $50,000 for an old synagogue in a black neighborhood...
...evangelistic forays to San Francisco and beyond. He again bought an old synagogue, this one in the run-down Fillmore area of San Francisco's inner city. Using it as his headquarters, he opened an infirmary, a child-care center, a carpentry shop and kitchens for feeding the neighborhood poor. His services were dazzling, with soul and gospel music and dance groups. He attracted increasing numbers of black parishioners (the Peoples Temple was more than 80% black). He involved them in liberal causes, busing them to protest demonstrations, making them canvass for politicians he favored, and ordering them...
...discussions of murder were carried on in 1969. Then, as Scott seemed less eager to reveal his relationship with Thorpe, the urgency of dealing with the problem diminished. But in 1973, said the prosecution, Scott moved to Thorpe's North Devon constituency and began to talk in the neighborhood about the liaison. In 1975, the Crown's prosecutor said, Thorpe's fellow defendant, Deakin, arranged a $20,000 murder contract with a former airline pilot, Andrew Newton, 31. The prosecution claims that Thorpe himself solicited money for the hit from an unwitting Liberal Party backer, then funneled...
Paul R. Kolodner, a neighborhood resident affiliated with the Agassiz Community Council, said yesterday, "This sort of intimidation is the way Harvard deals with the community in general." He added, "Harvard has a bad record of dealing with this neighborhood...
...shirtsleeves. The Brahmin judged, correctly as it turned out, that the neighborhood was on the way downhill; he sold his house immediately...