Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
DIED. William E. Jenner, 76, ultraconservative Republican Senator from Indiana (1944-45, 1947-59) who was sometimes known as the "Hoosier McCarthy" because of his rabid anti-Communism and fervent admiration for his Wisconsin colleague, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; of a respiratory ailment; in Bedford, Ind. He opposed the Marshall Plan for European recovery, and collective security measures, including the nato alliance, and in 1950 called General George Marshall "a living lie" and "a front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession...
...widely-publicized New Bedford trial, held over 33 days last spring, four men were acquitted of raping a woman on a barroom pool table while a crowd of patrons allegedly cheered...
...heroic. Romeo would have said to Juliet, "You're a neat girl, but I don't think our families are ever going to let us get married. Maybe we should split up." Captain Ahab would have given up whaling and retired to grow petunias in a suburb of New Bedford...
...action put 1,500 employees out of work and left five small cities without any scheduled airline service. Many of those familiar with PBA expressed faith in the company. Said Isidore Eisner, manager of the New Bedford, Mass., Municipal Airport: "PBA has a proud and good reputation." Most PBA employees felt that the FAA action had been too drastic. Said Robin Hamilton, who sells charter flights for the airline: "I've never had one minute's hesitation jumping on one of our planes. This is the best job I ever...