Word: bedford
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...Ends. Claiming support that was "both broad and deep," McGovern not only fared well in the working-class wards but swept 80% and 72% of the vote respectively in the college towns of Hanover (Dartmouth) and Durham (University of New Hampshire) and carried such suburban areas as Bedford and Amherst. And, while topping McCarthy's 1968 showing by more than 7,000 votes, he also managed to make off with at least five of the 20 convention delegates that Muskie figured he had locked...
Another youngster, Lorene, who lives in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, was so withdrawn before being exposed to poetry therapy that she stayed out of school, refused treatment for her disfiguring facial eczema and sought escape in alcohol. Visited at home by English Teacher Morris Morrison, she began to respond and cooperate when he read her two lines from Emily Dickinson, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?/ Are you-Nobody -too?" "In Emily Dickinson," Morrison explains, "Lorene could identify with someone as lonely as herself." Eventually Lorene went for skin treatment and returned to school...
Died. William H. Lawrence, 56, political reporter and national-affairs editor of ABC News; of a heart attack; in Bedford, N.H. An aggressive newsman of the never-take-no-for-an-answer school, Lawrence worked for both the Associated Press and United Press before joining the New York Times 30 years ago. After a stint abroad, he returned to Washington and his favorite beat-politics. Though he had a voice of gravel and the face of an unsuccessful prizefighter, he made the switch to television with ease ten years ago and continued to report scoops with enviable frequency...
...lived for a year in Bedford-Stuyvesant (central Brooklyn), the worst ghetto in the U.S., and took part in building an integrated Community Development Center. We found the overwhelming majority of black people in Bed-Sty neither happy, courageous, nor even remotely "coping." Alcohol, drugs, prostitution, pervasive gambling, fatherless babies, teen-age dropouts, robbery and mugging are daily accelerating facts of life for the majority of whipped, defeated, unstable black victims of white institutionalized racism. Most blacks in the ghetto do suffer-not exotically, but horribly. Coles' misinterpretation denies the critical need for a radical reordering of the allocation...
...black woman running for the White House would be a bit far out even in an Allen Drury novel-or so it seemed before Shirley Chisholm came on the scene. Last week, in her Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn with California Representative Ron Dellums at her side, the U.S.'s first black Congresswoman announced her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination-bringing the total number of declared entrants to ten. Why is she running? "To repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for a qualified candidate simply because he is not white or because...