Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...optimistic. Paul Grogan, a precinct organizer in the Fenway, said he was "scared." Grogan said he did not expect White to pull the 70 per cent Fenway majority over State Sen. Joseph Timilty that he had carried off in the preliminary election...
...moment when Timilty began his concession speech with the words "like the Red Sox," uncertainly over his intentions reigned. With no giant black-board to tote up precinct tallies, Timilty backers spent the evening glued to television sets scattered through the Bay State room...
Deputy Chief of Detectives William J. Averill, 62, arrives at 9:30 to command the operation and deploys hundreds of officers, many of them volunteers, who are gathering from all over the city after hearing the news. Sergeant Reddy, who ran the precinct's neighborhood police team, was popular in the tough, polyglot area of Puerto Ricans, blacks, whites and Chinese. The police get cooperation. By 4 a.m., when Averill returns to his office, he has concluded that he is looking for two Hispanic males in their 20s. One, not the killer, is called Frankie, last name unknown...
...alternative for lot 81 is suggested in the interim long-range planning report, which classifies the land as a "potential pedestrian precinct," making it one of the targets for a possible "major effort to improve the existing outdoor space environment." However, the interim report (issued in June 1974 and scheduled for a final release late this fall) also says such an effort "will require funding beyond the regular maintenance budget...
...nervous. Identified later as Dominick Byrne, 53, an Irish-born operator of a Brooklyn limousine service, he saw FBI agents near the Lynch apartment building. Apparently assuming that the kidnap plot was crumbling, he decided to fend for himself. Byrne sent someone to deliver a note to a police precinct in Brooklyn. Police notified the FBI and went to Byrne's apartment. He told them where Sam was being kept. When police rushed there, they found the building already under surveillance by other FBI agents...