Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beny Primm, executive director of Addiction Research and Treatment Corp. in Brooklyn's drug-ravaged Bedford-Stuyvesant area: "I'm not a civil libertarian any more when it comes to the destruction of lives. I hate to sound so conservative, but this is from five years in the field. I see it every day. People say, 'Lock the pushers up, even if they're my son or daughter...
...quitting. These days he is busy touring the college campuses, playing festivals like the Newport Jazz Festival, and invading major concert halls in such cities as Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and, of course, New York. In between, he "rests up" in his modest, nine-room house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and sometimes lets his mind wander back over times gone by. Like the night when he was eight and thought there was a ghost in the backyard. Actually, it was a white shirt hanging on the clothesline. His father took him outside, made him touch...
...small state college in Dartmouth drawing most of its students from the surrounding Fall River-New Bedford area. SMU does not get experienced fencers. In fact, according to Corsait coach Eugene Williams, "We get zero in terms of experience...
Although Studds was leading weeks by 33,600 to 26,466 with only about 40 per cent of the vote counted, the Democrat seemed to have victory safely in his grasp by running ahead of his expected totals in New Bedford, Plymouth and Norwell
This year two personable contestants face one another in the Twelfth. Democrat Gerry Studds, 35, is a former prep school teacher and Foreign Service officer who even learned Portuguese to improve his image among immigrant New Bedford voters. Opponent William Weeks, 46, is strictly Brahmin: Father Sinclair was Dwight Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; Grandfather John was Coolidge's Secretary of War. After graduating from Harvard, Weeks himself served for a time as an assistant dean of freshmen at the college. The two are running neck and neck, but McGovern liberalism is hurting Studds...