Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little over a century ago, in the bustling seaport of New Bedford, Mass., a man and a boy found a common interest. The boy, Albert Pinkham Ryder, the son of the town's jack-of-all-trades, was only eleven at the time. But town legend has it that every so often he would cross Mill Street to watch his neighbor Albert Bierstadt, 28, paint. In time, both left their home town to seek their fortunes as artists, but if their paths ever crossed after that, there is no record of it. Last week, as New Bedford...
...museum walls, and one after another, they found their way to storerooms and attics. Critics dismissed them as huge postcards, and some declared that it was more Bierstadt's commanding manner than his talent that had brought him such high prices. But last week viewers at the New Bedford show could see why the story did not end there...
...confusion, there was a delay before anyone took the step necessary to positively identify the strange satellite: informing the Air Force's newly established surveillance center in Bedford, Mass. It is the surveillance center's job to take all observations on satellites from all friendly observing centers, both optical and electronic, feed them into computers to produce figures that will identify each satellite, describe its orbit and predict its behavior. Says one top official, explaining the cold facts of the space age: "The only way of knowing that a new satellite has appeared is by keeping track...
...coronet. While only one in 15 marriages between commoners breaks up in Britain, seven of 25 of Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings started by his Duchess No. 2. In Edinburgh last week, Argyll, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and Salesman of Argyll Socks in all the ads, was trying to shed Duchess No. 3. Fortnight earlier, the Duchess of Bedford's sister...