Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amount of tax revenue the city raises. This means that heavily taxed but not so needy cities would get more aid than impoverished communities whose tax base has steadily eroded. Comfortable Newton, Mass, (pop. 91,066), would get $1,527,668 v. only $821,964 for decaying New Bedford (pop. 101,777). "This formula doesn't do anything but put money where the wealth is," said Gibbons. When Ohio's Charles Vanik argued that the 25 largest cities in the U.S. would receive only one-quarter of the $5 billion, Connally bluntly confessed: "This is not a bill...
...Duke of Bedford...
Real Disguise. Serpico says he is unhappy as an informer. Born to Italian immigrant parents in the tough Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, he grew up in awe of the policeman on the beat. "There was something about those shiny buttons, the white gloves, even the gun, that we all admired," he says. After two years of college and a year as a social worker, he joined the force in 1959. But Serpico never joined the club. He rarely spent off-duty time with coworkers, would not enter the "us and them" clannishness that leads many police to view...
...News-Cameraman Paul Pappas got a rare invitation for a white newsman last July. The Black Panthers said he could talk to them at their headquarters in New Bedford, Mass., as long as he did not report anything that happened that night-unless he was present during a raid on the headquarters. Pappas agreed spent four hours with the Panthers and left. Five hours later, the police raided. A grand jury investigating race riots in New Bedford later subpoenaed Pappas and asked him several questions-including the identity of the Panthers he had interviewed-that he felt he could...
...rally, which was held on the Boston Common, started at 4:15 p. m. Speeches were given by Paul Coumings, a draft resister and anti-war activist; Ruth Lettvin of the Cambridge office of the Panther Defense Committee; and Kim Holland of the New Bedford Panthers...