Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee joined last week with other opponents of the Belt in an attempt to create a new, larger group, called "Save Our Cities." Meeting Thursday at Simeone's, an Italian-American restaurant that would be destroyed by the highway, they constantly emphasized the need to gain mass public support for the fight against the highway...
...citizens and that the politicians have to listen to us....The trouble is that we haven't got organized enough to tell them that we want this highway stopped," William P. Homans, an attorney and ex-state representative, told the group. Homans has assumed an informal leadership role in "Save Our Cities...
Invited to the meeting were leaders of churches, civic groups, and clubs. Homans appealed to them to have their organizations join "Save Our Cities" and have their members support its goals on masse...
...Save Our Cities' Role...
Only his undertaking business guarantees Gennaro a measure of self-respect. To save it, he turns into a thief and hijacks the contents of a warehouse, but is interrogated and tortured by the police. At last the business collapses; dying old man and desperate young boy are turned out of their tumble-down tenement; Gennaro is stripped of everything-except his roaring Neapolitan zest for life...