Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newest and most sophisticated of these fantasy parlors is Golf-O-Rama, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. For $3.75 on weekdays and $5.25 on weekends, a golfer can pretend that he is playing 18 holes on one of five courses (Oahu, Thunderbird, Pebble Beach, Firestone, the Dunes). The illusion of actual play is achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement...
...first participant in the program is Sergeant John Amos of Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. Amos will begin a job Monday as an administrative intern with the Cambridge Hospital Community Medicine program...
Providing illegal gambling opportunities, especially numbers betting, is a lucrative enterprise for ambitious blacks. Chicago has ten major numbers operations, some black-controlled, which bring in as much as $10 million a year, mostly from blacks. In Bedford-Stuyvesant the numbers play last year came to about $40 million...
Opinions differ on how the Government should deal with the irregular economy. The Lasswell-McKenna report on Bedford-Stuyvesant calls for legalizing gambling as a means of taking the play away from criminals. A measure that would amend the constitution to legalize gambling is now before the New York legislature. Poor blacks tend to be against such a change because they distrust government, and they figure that the proceeds from gambling would be taken away from the black numbers runners and other local operatives. In addition, numbers men now extend credit to their customers, but legal betting parlors demand cash...
After the call stopped on December 8, Gillispie's parents went home to Bedford, New York, but never gave up hope. But on Saturday, February 5, they had to. Gillispie's body was found in a wood near Billerica...