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...people still up." She lives alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth's and Lamston...
...issue did not last long in the legislature. State Attorney General Robert H. Quinn decided that legislators couldn't comple a private institution to follow their mandates. So in April 1973, Quinn appointed a Boston Attorney, Daniel B. Bickford to investigate the case...
After studying the situation, Bickford recommended last January that Quinn initiate court action. Bickford further suggested that Quinn seek court action for an accounting of two 18th century Harvard trust funds for Indians: the Stoughton Bequest of 1701, and the Williams Trust...
Nevertheless, more Harvard students than ever before joined the civil-rights movement that summer. Twenty-seven were arrested for picketing the old Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, demanding that it hire more blacks. Several dozen more joined the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer, once more risking arrest or (many of them thought) worse to help register southern blacks, run "freedom schools," or organize for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In the fall, 20 SDS members began block-by-block organizing in an integrated Roxbury community, beginning with demands that abandoned and unsafe buildings in the area be demolished...
...attorney general appointed Bickford last April to study claims by the Native American Student Association (NASA) that Harvard is obligated to provide rent-free rooms for Indian students under the terms of a 1653 trust agreement...