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...Berta Hernandez, who has rented an apartment on Western Ave. for two decades, says housing prospects are bleak in light of Harvard’s expansion...
Eventually he decided to look for freedom in his own backyard. Literally. In 1978 he renovated the small Santa Monica house where he still lives with his second wife Berta, turning a conventional pink Dutch colonial into an explosion of cinder blocks, corrugated steel and chain link. It instantly became one of those places that some say is an icon and others an eyesore. But its picture appeared everywhere, and it put him on the map of cutting-edge architects. Not long after, he decided to follow his bliss and do only the kind of work he wanted...
Through the accumulation of such glancing, oblique details (sensitively photographed by Renato Berta), Goretta builds up a pattern of shapely ironies. Pierre impulsively confides in one of his intended victims, a post office clerk named Nelly Wagner, and she ultimately becomes his mistress and accomplice. Yet, credibly and touchingly. Pierre remains devoted to his wife -Nelly is only his partner in crime. When, as they must, the police catch up with Pierre, his baffled, tearful wife remonstrates, "I'm strong too!" In trying to make up for his father's mistake, he has only repeated...
Married. Roger Mills, 24, a white civil rights law clerk for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund; and Berta Linson, 24, a black Jackson State College student whom he met while working in the L.D.F.'s local office a year ago; he for the first time, she for the second; in a nondenominational ceremony in Jackson, Miss., the first legally sanctioned interracial marriage in the history of that state...
Working with Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger, and drawing on the detailed and perceptive reports from the field, Writers David Tinnin and Philip Osborne and Senior Editor George Daniels were able to fashion a comprehensive account of the events as they were happening, placing the present in the perspective of history...