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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 29, 1977

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1. A photos by Chip Maury my la Ujj a � i ,. Immigrant in Boston s old mercantile wharf building converted into apartments. By Daniel  associated press Hist came the British. Then the Irish. Italians and Blacks. Now a new Migra Tion is swarming into Boston changing the City in a Way As dramatic As its Waves of predecessors. These new settlers take Over Down town neighbourhoods abandoned by people who had Money enough to leave. And they arc saving Boston from boarded up Heaters Tumble Down architecture and after dark desertion that arc us imprint of old american cities. They ire the Young professionals. Thousands of them Between the Ages of 20 and 33 in moving fran towns across the l med slates in work Ami live in Boston. Together they form a social Weiass with ample Money and Baniad Energy. And they i ave begun to shape the Ace of the old City like a in a Breed of Yonton Itra hmm they hum moved into shabby neighbourhoods und turned slea a tenements and rickety Ware houses into Chic expensive places to live. On warm Spring evening these new lint in Bia Hisiu i i Stu uni be  i the  up up in it in hymn  to Siu arc and  Oxer a  s Supply have stopped the decades of flight to the suburbs. Ill 1 k ii.  people lived Dow Iilo a  there Aie  Vire. And Liy Lui i the Urban renewal a Elev Ekl l i there to  75 i  13/d. The steady decline in the in Wulc a  has . Anil the City Lias Vur in to atiait1. Our census shows that the list Aux is  to Viva group.1  c,.ii. R n i  a uni adus. Ian Rev a r.,-., \ a rate of about 5,000 a year. They Are finding jobs in higher education medi Cine finance insurance engineering Law and Busi  says Ganz we have had growth to jobs in the service areas All through the 70s, even while we were losing jobs in manufacturing and retail  typically these people Corne to Boston to go to College and never leave. They Are people like Dorothy Curran 24. Who grew up in Buffalo . And came to the Boston area to go to College. When she was graduated two years ago from Wellesley she ai/.cd. I could t go Back to Buffalo very easily and find a Good Job and there Are lots of things Here that you just can t find in  a i now she lives in Boston and commutes to a sub Urban computer firm where she works As a technical Anler rur uvin Ruli ins. Boston has  a City of mini l mts. Insh and italian mostly whose Standard of a  
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