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Harvard bought 700 acres of the Estabrook Woods in Concord from a group of private owners, and an 30-acre tract from the estate of the late Edward M. Pickman '08, located in nearby Bedford. This property, added to the neighboring 2000-acre National Fish and Wildlife Refuge of the Concord River, will serve as a nature lab for studying geology, the effect of plant-eating fauna on vegetation, and methods to control animal population...
...trust under which Harvard runs the Arboretum was established in 1872 under the will of James B. Arnold of New Bedford. The Arboretum was established on, and still occupies, 265 acres in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston...
Hudgins' job now is to find enough money to lend, especially since he plans to open a branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York's other big Negro ghetto. To help attract new deposits, he preaches Sundays in Harlem churches. His invariable sermon subject: the virtue of thrift...
Meanwhile, in New Bedford, the Massachusetts courts began their suppression of yet another book. A bookseller was fined $1000 and sent to jail for a year for selling Henry Miller's Sexus...
Nonetheless, in Scenarist James Poe's gritty adaptation of the cold war thriller by Mark Rascovich, Bedford appears to be powered by superpatriotism. Captain Richard Widmark is a right-wing fanatic whose hot head simmers harmlessly ("It's a lot of work being a mean bastard") until his ship sights a Soviet sub prowling territorial waters off Greenland. The captain can scarcely restrain his thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former...