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...groupings are launching experimental programs. New York City's begins next September, Chicago's started last winter, and 400-odd others are under way. This year, for the first time, the Federal Government is awarding two grants specifically in the field, to help plan model courses in Bedford, Mass., and New Orleans. Even the Roman Catholic Church, which hitherto has given the subject a wide berth, is taking the plunge. The New York Archdiocese has prepared a "Program of Family Life Education" for its 400 parishes. Catholic-run Fordham University will offer next September a series of lectures...
...Rivington's Gazette reported that "the rebel officers and men quitted their jades, and threw themselves over the fences to gain the swamp." Tarleton "returned to the camp of the rebels, burned and destroyed their whole baggage, and . . . several houses." Actually, the "rebel camp" was the town of Bedford-which Tarleton carefully burned to the ground, barns, cattle...
...sunrise on an April morning in 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 1,200 Confederate forces attacked the Union works at Fort Pillow in West Tennessee. Within hours the Rebs had butchered most of the ill-prepared garrison soldiers...
...other sailing over the weekend, Radcliffe lost by one point to M.I.T. on the Charles and another Harvard squad dropped a seven point decision to the same school in New Bedford. 'Cliffe captain Jane Chalmers and her crew Sue Kotlier managed 37 points in the 69-68 loss...
...chairmanship of Kennedy's community corporation is a position of potentially immense prestige, and there could be an important election in the near future: for the area's first Congressman. Right now, because of gerrymandering in the Republican-dominated 1961 state legislature, Bedford-Stuyvesant is split among five contorted congressional districts. Residents have filed a suit challenging the districting, the city joined with them on it, and a decision is expected in the next few weeks...