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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone participated in Southie's St. Patrick's Day parade. The O'Tooles, Flahertys, Kirbys, Comiskeys, Dohertys, Donnellys and Dineens. It was strictly a family-affair; a big block party with all the warmth, neighborhood pride, good humor and openness that one can only find in this last-of-the-big-working-class-ethnic-neighborhoods...
Sure the Knicks won the game, 108-104, but that is not the issue. The spread is, and as set by the neighborhood bookie, it favored the Knicks by five and one-half points. In other words, if you chose to bet on the Knicks' opponents, the Portland Trailblazers, you would win your bet if the Blazers either won the game or lost by less than five and one-half points...
...seven-to eleven-year-olds, released last week by the private Foundation for Child Development, indicated that most children feel good about their lives, their families and just being themselves. But many are also afraid. More than two-thirds are scared that "someone bad" is skulking about their neighborhood, waiting to break into their homes. A quarter of the children are afraid that they will be attacked when they go outside-with some justification, since more than 40% have been harassed by older kids or adults while playing. Children addicted to television (those who watch four or more hours daily...
...number of these will end up completing. We hope to make it at least in the neighborhood of last year's total numbers of black applicants and it's possible we may even go slightly higher," William R. Fitzsimmons '67, director of admissions, said yesterday...
Located in a residential section, Hastings House is a red-frame structure on Chestnut Street. Old and traditionally built, it might be just another home in the neighborhood for all that its appearance suggests...