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...squawk of the radio that would mean news, or tragedy, depending on your outlook. Dorchester, with its distinct line between the white and Black sections, is quiet. So too Brookline, and downtown Boston, where workers busily sweep up a day's worth of bakery wrappings from the Quincy Market plaza. In fact, it looks like it might be a bad night, real quiet...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Park Street Under Blues | 7/8/1980 | See Source »

...short of the 1,666 needed to renominate him at the Democratic Convention in New York City in August. So his strategists tried to upstage a long-scheduled Reagan rally on the steps of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus by having the President address a gathering in the plaza in front of the nearby Nationwide Life Insurance building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Balloons, Bands and Oratory | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...here. Mrs. Martha Pina, a psychologist, welcomed her cousin Armando Pavron, 29. The son of a banker, Pavron spent seven years in a prison camp for trying to flee from Cuba. He dropped to 110 lbs. working the sugar-cane fields. He is now employed as a dishwasher at Plaza Dining in Secaucus. "Even though I have a university degree, I am happy to wash dishes," he says as he scrubs pots. "First I will learn English. Then I will go back to college. I don't want any charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Happy to Wash Dishes | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Boston does not bake a 15-foot cake for just any occasion. Beginning at noon today, an estimated 5000-10,000 citizens will gather in City Hall Plaza to gaze upon the bakery masterpiece and join the festivities surrounding the city's 350th birthday. Robert Burke '73, one of the organizers of "Boston Jubilee 350," said yesterday...

Author: By G. ROBERT Strauss, | Title: Let Them Eat Boston's Cake | 5/1/1980 | See Source »

...lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently panicked at the blast and began firing wildly, sending the crowd surging toward the sanctuary of the cathedral. Some witnesses claimed that gunfire also came from soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Something Vile in This Land | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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