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Seated behind a pile of groceries and waving a package of Velveeta as she talked, Mrs. Gladys Aponte, a Puerto Rican who heads a consumer group in Brooklyn's bleak Bedford-Stuyvesant district, told of the results of two days of comparison shopping a fortnight ago. On every one of 20 standard items, she said, prices were higher in Bedford- Stuyvesant than they were in nearby Flatbush, a middle-class area; totaled up, the difference was as much as $1. Making the arithmetic even more onerous is the fact that people in the slums spend...
M.I.T. has several buildings that are devoted exclusively to classified research for the Defense Department, he said. And in Bedford, M.I.T. conducts DOD work at its Lincoln Laboratories...
...these funds, which was drawn up under the direction of Justin Gray, assistant to the City Manager for community development, is privately spoken of by Washington officials as the best in the country. This may explain why Cambridge was selected over needier cities like Fall River and New Bedford...
...boys, Trang Cuong Viet, 10, and Nguyen Phat Luom, 13, were injured by shrapnel and bombs in the South Vietnamese provinces. They were flown to Hanscom Field in Bedford by the United States Air Force. They will undergo reconstructive plastic surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital in Brookline where doctors have offered their services without charge...
...Harvard freshman has been named Chairman of the Suffolk County Drive for a Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. The drive is part of a statewide effort called Citizens for Massachusetts which was organized by Rep. Chandler H. Stevens Jr. (I-Bedford...