Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the corner from the subway stop at Dudley Station, at the District 2 city police headquarters, cops and secretaries lounged around, jingling the keys on their belt loops and shooting the bull. After joining state and federal police in what amounted to a war-time-like occupation of the troubled schools and streets last fall, they now have orders to keep a low profile, to "keep the lid on," from Robert J. DiGrazia, Boston's respected, reform-minded and very high profile police commissioner...
...problems to deal with without expulsion from school, problems that have continued through all the years that all the campaign stickers, now shreds of paper flying in the morning wind, have built up on the side of the Marcus Garvey House a few blocks up the hill from Dudley Station--"Vote White," "Vote Kennedy," "Let's Do It Again, Elect Bill Owens" (the state senator). Even with desegregation, Boston inner-city residents will have to cope with their version of the ills that have caused all races to flee Detroit, which has no desegregation, like a city gutted by steady...
...offices were once located in Harvard Square, has decided to live in the neighborhood where he works, and thus he says he has a vested interest in the Square's preservation. (Not surprisingly, however--oh, perhaps coincidentally--Smith's house and offices are located right next to the police station. Jerry Lane: "It figures...
...party's faithful that colored people would never sit in South Africa's all-white Parliament. In the city of Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town, the main business district was closed after hundreds of youths stoned shops and cars and tried to storm a police station. "It looks like a battlefield," said a police official. At Stellenbosch, roads leading to the nonwhite townships were closed by police. In Kimberley, the diamond-mining city in the center of the country, police clashed with a crowd of 700 students. In Manenburg, mobs stoned police and threatened to attack nearby...
...Mars, they swiveled the lander's cameras around for a better look at the Utopia site and the planet's salmon-pink sky, triggered its seismometers so that it could listen for Marsquakes (similar devices on Viking 1 have failed to work) and switched on its weather station instruments...