Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down Commonwealth Avenue a crowd of 100,000 converged on the Boston Common. They were mostly students, but mothers from Newton and Wellesley walked among them, their children wearing black M-day armbands or clutching helium-filled black balloons. From a bar, a man hollered: "Bums! Do they think of the guys who died on Guadalcanal?" Halfway across the nation in front of the Forest Park (Ill.) Selective Service office, miniskirted girls from nearby Rosary College were reciting the names of the Illinois war dead; two elderly clerks inside went on with their work, paying little attention. San Francisco State...
...seeking insurance for their new jumbo jets. What Lloyd's needs most is rich new members to cover its risks; its scouts are out scouring the golf courses and grouse shoots to get them. This year the governing committee accepted the first 16 underwriters from outside the Commonwealth. Next year the "governors" will bend tradition even more. For the first time in its 282-year history, Lloyd's will admit women-a recognition of the fact of financial life that much of the world's capital is controlled by women...
...Cambridge group joined with others from Northeastern, M.I.T., and B.U. at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Along Commonwealth, dozens of windows were decorated with anti-war posters. Several young people leaned out of apartment windows and led chants of "Peace...
Participants will march to the Common from several spots. including the Cambridge Common. Meeting at the corners of Massachusetts and Commonwealth Avenues in Boston. they will then proceed directly to the rally, scheduled to begin...
...peaceful two-hour march through Cambridge and Boston was a city-wide effort beginning separately at Harvard, Boston University and Boston State. All marchers met at the corner of Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenue...