Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many moneyed families are economizing in the hope that whatever turn the economy takes, they will not be forced to shave their philanthropies. Mrs. John M. Bradley of Boston's aristocratic North Shore is concerned that the community will not continue its support for such laudable institutions as Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which she is chairwoman, and the Radcliffe College Fund (co-chairwoman). Says Mrs. K. Dun Gifford, a conservationist leader of Cambridge, Mass., society, "I'm not complaining about the family's self-enforced economies: I find all this very healthy...
...approached by several people skeptical about the validity of Hurricane Carter's conviction. Raab agreed to read the trial transcript and found the case against Carter and Artis weak. He returned to the bar where the shootings occurred and retraced the steps of two key witnesses, Arthur D. Bradley and Alfred P. Bello, who were burglarizing a nearby sheet-metal company at the time of the Shootout. At the trial, both witnesses gave the impression that they were next door to the murder scene. Raab discovered that the metal company was actually 2½ blocks away. When Raab tried...
...grades and permitted students to take a pass/fail option in any course outside their major. The committee has until Christmas to make its final report on how the new system is working. It probably will not be too harsh. "We just live in a nonjudgmental society," said Committee Chairman Bradley Efron, a professor of statistics. But today's graduates may be in for a rude shock when they discover that in the workaday world, not everyone can count...
Although Patton admired Omar Bradley, he referred to him as "Omar the Tentmaker." Of General Mark Wayne Clark he was almost invariably contemptuous and jealous. Patton's constant theme throughout the war was a kind of bewildered disappointment that men he regarded as his inferiors were surpassing him. "I can't see how people can be so dull and lacking in imagination," he wrote. "Compared to them, I am a genius. I think...
...provocative Rand study is based on a shaky hypothesis-that the automakers can create effective antipollution devices and that motorists will maintain them. Doubting Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, prefers to back the rapid-transit proposal. "He does not feel he can rely solely on Detroit to clean up our air," says an aide. The net result of the study, besides pointing out that the clean air act's standards may be unrealistically strict, is to prove again to the besieged and besmogged voters of Los Angeles that there are no easy environmental answers...