Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wrestling vs. Springfield...
...serves as a kind of Mecca for the Skinheads who come to Cambridge from Somerville, South Boston, Brookline and Springfield. Even though the skinheads hang out in other places, such as Kenmore and Copley Squares, Harvard "is the best place to hang," they say. The police are very strict in Copley Square about people loitering, the skinheads say. And "Kenmore Square is a violent place...
...reform legislator in a machine-dominated state, Simon found life in Springfield lonely, until a few like-minded colleagues were elected in 1956. One of them was Jeanne Hurley, a liberal Democratic lawyer from the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. "Long before Paul and I fell in love," she recalls, "we were working together as colleagues." Simon proposed on their second date. This being the 1950s, Hurley reconciled herself to giving up her legislative seat, though even today one can hear hints of regret over abandoning her dream of becoming a judge. Their respective religions were a more serious problem...
...Linkage is a solution that will not solve the problem," said Jeffrey Ciuffreda, vice-president for government affairs at the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce. "Any further encumberances on development could cause plans not to happen...
Assistant Vice-President of Signature Development Corp., in Springfield, James Moynihan, also oppsses linkage. "I am concerned about the constitutionality of requiring developers to follow such guidelines. What is to prevent [lawmakers] from spreading to all matters related to public works," he said...