Word: brighton
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...Brighton, Mass...
...vote amended a bill filed by Reps. Joseph M. Kearney (D-Hyde Park) and John F. Melia (D-Brighton) after the antiwar rally in Arlington Street Church last October 16. Melia charged that some instructors excused students from class specifically for the anti-draft demonstration, and Kearney played a tape allegedly including the voices of UMass instructors urging students to resist...
Kearney and Rep. John F. Melia (D.-Brighton) drew up the bill after last Oct. 16th's rally at the Arlington Street Church in which 280 draft cards were burned or turned in. Melia claimed yesterday that he decided to sponsor the bill when an irate parent complained that his daughter's professor had offered to excuse from classes any student who wished to participate in the demonstration...
...McCarthy's candidacy. Though details of CNCV's participation have not been fully worked out, the committee will probably have only a loose affiliation with Citizens for McCarthy, so that CNCV would retain its identity if McCarthy's campaign flops. With remnants of the vietnam Summer organization in Allston-Brighton and PAX in Somerville, they will nominate a slate of McCarthy delegates from the Eighth Congressional District. CNCV plans to drum up support for this slate prior to the State Democratic primary on April...
Instead of a blast, however, the Tory convention was an unmuzzled bore. Convened before BBC television cameras at the Top Rank entertainment center in the beach resort of Brighton, it proved to be the most powerful argument for picking up a good book since the advent of televised wrestling. The Tory high command, following the example of Party Leader Ted Heath, sat solemnly on the speaker's platform, heavy-lidded, hard-shelled and heartburned. Little about the party leaders suggested that they were capable of standing up to the slogan emblazoned on the rostrum: PUT BRITAIN BACK...