Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recreate a Gold Coast style of life at Harvard, but the previous estimate hardly provided a marginal standard of living. Taking into account the tuition increase, the new estimate of $2600 is also not especially realistic; a better estimate of average student expenditure would probably lie in the neighborhood of $3000 a year. It can only be hoped that the Committee will increase its allowance for next year's scholarship applicants by at least another...
...likely to be punished by his own gang; the "cheesy," or traitorous, may well be killed. Some gangs sport ladies' auxiliaries, called "debs," who not only supply sexual favors but carry their gangs' weapons as well. In times of peace, the gangs and their debs frequent neighborhood community centers and candy stores. Their favorite pastime: a slow-tempo, pelvis-to-pelvis dance called "the fish...
Boys with Their Sisters. The T. & C., which has made it big just when most large nightclubs are not able to make it at all, has the air of a neighborhood bar trying to masquerade as the Hollywood Bowl, and half-succeeding. The cavernous, turquoise-walled main room rises in tiers from an elevated stage that could double as a soccer field. The reservation crowd ("We like nobody off the street") comes mostly from Brooklyn; whole families take tables together, and women's clubs sit in solid platoons. Girls dance with one another, little boys with their sisters...
Charged Allen: "He has abused his position and power and assumed the role of the neighborhood bully. By far the greater number of TV people openly disapprove of O'Brian's professional methods. He is derelict in his duty to his readers, unethical in his methods, and beneath the respect of the industry because his column is frequently an outlet for his personal emotional delinquencies and vindictive displays of pique...
From Chicago came word of a lad precociously qualified for 700-school attention. Twelve-year-old Robert Merchant Jr., a policeman's son, began pilfering from homes in his neighborhood in 1954. Sometimes he worked alone; sometimes he took his four-year-old brother John along, pushed him through transoms. Once he cracked a gas station, found a pistol, managed to wound himself. Four child-guidance centers in turn worked on Robert, got nowhere. After three years of this, his mother gave up, insisted he was incorrigible and a "pathological liar," should be sent to a reform school...