Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next big event is the NEAAU 3--kilometer race this Sunday in New Bedford. Thirty kilometers is a pretty ambitious workout for most people this early in the season. "I just want to run more than I walk, and stay under 12 minutes a mile," one energetic man said...
Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
Baird Atomic is vacating the site to move to a new plant in Bedford. The Bedford plant is over half finished, Baird Vice-President David Low said yesterday, commenting that the firm planned to move by mid-July as specified in its agreement with Rufo...
...first black man in history to lose to a black woman for Congress." The man who founded CORE 26 years ago is more than that. His biography would practically write the story of the civil rights movement. His loss to Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant district came at the will of the Democratic machine which has a stranglehold on the ghetto. The election does not detract from his prestige and left no personal bitterness--only a few campaign anecdotes and a contempt for machine politics...
...only possible way seemed to be to deny that they wanted to make it. All the accoutrements of the hip life in rock were reminders that you were first and foremost a Beautiful Person, with loyalties not to entertainment but to other Beautiful People. We played a gig in Bedford, New York for some society chick, who introduced me after our third set to -- zowie! -- George Plimpton...