Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 225 antiwar protestors were arrested at a non-violent sit-in at Hanscom Field, an Air Force research and development center in Bedford, on the 26th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, August 6. The action, organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, was one of two antiwar demonstrations scheduled. The Greater Boston Peace Action coalition staged a candlelight parade following a rally on the Boston Common that night. The lightly-attended rally was conveniently over just as the 12,000 people attending the Rod Stewart Summerthing Concert were pouring onto downtown streets. Still, the candlelight parade...
FROM Berkeley to Bedford-Stuyvesant, scrawls of aerosol paint on ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
...been stifling, so chilled vichyssoise straight from the can seemed like the perfect dish when Banker Sam Cochran, 61, and his wife Grace, 63, sat down to dinner at their Bedford Village, N.Y., home a fortnight ago. But they did not finish their shallow bowls of cold soup. It tasted spoiled, Mrs. Cochran later told their doctor...
...inclined to disguise the market value of its major acquisitions.) His probable reaction will be fury at the wrong priorities that spending $5,000,000 on a painting involves. Who can say that the boy would not be right? In a city that has a Harlem and a Bedford-Stuyvesant, and is already stuffed to superfluity with exceptional works of art, pride in acquiring yet another multimillion-dollar painting is merely an index of fetishism and decayed conscience...
...Duke of Bedford has been proved right. Public toilets cost a new British penny (2.4?), but maintaining the monarchy costs each of Britain's 55 million citizens less than that a year. Still, the value of the monarchy and how much it ought to cost was the hottest issue in Britain last week...