Word: riverfront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church broke the leafy roof of the Yard. Flying from Bedford to Cambridge and back takes only a few minutes, but it offers a delightful perspective on the University's architecture and layout--the bold patterns of Quincy and Leverett Towers, for example, and the pleasing sweep of the riverfront Houses...
...Central Square merchant suggested that it would be to the city's as well as the University's advantage to expand along the Charles. Expansion in this direction would beautify Cambridge's riverfront and prevent demolition of still-usable buildings in other areas bordering the university, he said, while removing one of the city's eyesores...
...openly in the anti-segregation fight. One day 175 Negro boys & girls tried to register at five grade schools and two junior high schools. Gill organized his fellow ministers to supervise the demonstration and prevent trouble. When crosses in the Ku Klux Klan tradition were burned on the riverfront to intimidate the Negroes, Gill's pulpit denunciation, and a newspaper statement which 17 other ministers signed, were the only voices in Alton raised publicly in opposition...
...President beamed and waved his gold-headed cane at the applause and finished his hike without drawing a deep breath; he topped the day off with a speech (see above) to 30,000 people who had gathered along the Mississippi riverfront to dedicate St. Louis' new park, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...
...South St. Louis, near the bleak and dreary Mississippi riverfront, there stands a gingerbread jumble of 100 buildings which form a city in themselves. They cover an area larger (72 city blocks) than Chicago's Loop, contain a spic & span power plant big enough to serve a city the size of Dallas, and are surrounded with as much rail trackage as Indianapolis. Each year, the buildings consume 3,522,980,000 gallons of water, 4,500,000 bushels of malted barley and the entire output (192,000 tons) of a nearby coal mine. Over them all hangs the sick...