Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junior Senator from California. He then goes on to recite a poem about the days of the whaling ships, supplying the sound of the anchors schlurping up from the bottom and the howls of storms at sea. His hero, Captain Medford, was a big man in New Bedford, he explains, in an era when there were 700 whaling ships "and only about 200 whales...
Founded in 1872 on the bequest of a New Bedford merchant, John Arnold, the arboretum comprises 265 acres of land in Jamaica Plain, near the Forest Hills MBTA Station. A major center for world plant study, it contains over 6,500 living species of woody trees, shrubs and vines...
...questioners were led by Jose Martinez, a member of a Cuban exile group called the "30th of November Movement." Addressing Bedford, Martin-quoted a figure of 113,000 political prisoners in Cuba and asserted that civil rights were being violated more drastically under Castro than under Batista...
...four accused the FBI of "harassing" some of the 84 members of the group that travelled to Cuba last summer. Bedford described how he had lost his job in a Boston museum after agents informed his employer of the trip. "Two others of the group," said Miss Rotolo, "have also lost their jobs through the friendly influence of neighborhood...
Sacks, in reply, said that the Revolution is merely "protecting itself." Bedford added that the "outside interference of the U.S. has a tremendous effect on the civil liberties of Cubans...