Word: bostonians
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Those who define themselves by a specific adversary have always acknowledged the bond. A faded photograph from 1962: at a Soviet-American track-and-field championship in Palo Alto, Calif., Siberian High Jumper Valeriy Brumel sprang past Bostonian John Thomas for his world record of 7 ft. 5 in. The American crowd cheered without reservation. Thomas hugged and pounded Brumel. On impulse, Valeriy and Tennessee Long Jumper Ralph Boston took a lap around the stadium to unreserved applause. Only the audience has changed...
...constantly changing. One American city that seems to manage technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses along the waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city...
...neighborhood doctor, to whom the kids brought underfed cats and crippled birds, and shy Mr. Platt who led us around on Halloween, and blind Mr. Chevigny who wrote of his seeing-eye dog in a bestseller, My Eyes Have a Cold Nose, and Mr. Homer, who had a booming Bostonian voice with which he asked every child over the age of six: "When do you plan to enroll at Harvard?" On the floor above ours in No. 36 lived three spinster ladies, Miss Prescott, Miss Cutler and Miss Jourdan, who would hire a car on Christmas Eve to drive them...
When Advertising Executive and native Bostonian James Ryan, 52, got the itch to revisit his city's historic sights, he shrank from the prospect of whizzing past them on a crowded tour bus. Solution: he popped a prerecorded tape into his personal cassette player, consulted a small map that came with the tape, and set off by himself on foot...
...proper Bostonians, finding a legal parking space in the traffic-choked downtown area is no tea party these days. Until two years ago, resourceful motorists could take an illegal spot with little fear of reprisal: the parking-ticket collection rate was a low 15%. And practically any Bostonian could get a ticket fixed. "In a way it was a very democratic system," explains City Traffic and Parking Commissioner John Vitagliano. "Anybody who actually paid their tickets back then was obviously from the boondocks. The whole thing was a joke...