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...family that has learned to live with the plan is that of Lawyer Donald Ungar, who lives in the middle-class district of West Portal. Ungar's son Kenneth now spends 15 to 20 minutes traveling to a 44-year-old school in a heavily Spanish-speaking area. Its playground is perpetually littered with broken glass. "We'd talk about that school this summer and tears would literally roll down my face." says Carol Ungar. "But my husband feels very strongly about integration. He'd say, 'Look, we believe in it. Let's give...
Harvard's offer of $200,000 to the Riverside area was first made in 1964 when the City refused to sell the Corporal Burns playground to Harvard even though it was the only piece of non-Harvard owned land left adjacent to the Peabody Terrace Married Student Housing...
Since Harvard could not buy the land, Charles P. Whitlock, then assistant to the president for Civic Affairs, made the University offer of $200,000 to be used to renovate the playground so it could accommodate increased usage by both Harvard and local children...
Between $100,000 and $125,000 will be spent on the playground. According to Moulton, the amount was set to correspond to the $100,000 that the City recommended for improving Corporal Burns in its 1971-72 Capital Improvement Program...
...years old, but then you don't even know what escape mechanisms are all about. You don't even know why you want to escape. Older cats have found a way to escape confronting these realities, and by the mere fact that you grow up on the playground with them, you begin to do the things they do even though you're not their age. Like you begin to drain their wine bottles, you know, you begin to take the pills, and smoke the grass because this affords you an opportunity to get away...