Word: brighton
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Eighth District Congressman Thomas P. O'Neill mailed a questionnaire to each of the 150,000 households in the district, which includes all or part of Allston, Brighton, Brookline, Charlestown, East Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. Released results include most of the 20,000 responses. Cambridge's results showed that 88 per cent favored U. S. withdrawal from Vietnam according to a fixed timetable and 56 per cent favored legalization of marijuana. Other results showed that...
...least the egg throwers showed interest in the proceedings. Traditionally, Britons in June are preoccupied by far different concerns-horse racing at Ascot, the Derby at Epsom, lovemaking in Green Park, picnics on the moors and sunning at Brighton. This year, England's soccer team is defending its world championship in the tourney at Mexico City, and many voters seem far more interested in what happens there than in the June 18 vote. "I get the feeling," said a visitor, "that the two leading candidates are Bobby Moore and Nijinsky [England's soccer captain and the Epsom Derby...
...eight guests to the hospital. Soccer games bring skinheads flocking, usually with weapons ranging from meathooks and carving forks to chisels and pipes. On a train returning from a match at Coventry, 300 skinheads nearly demolished the carriages; 60 were arrested. Nearly 100 were jailed after mob violence from Brighton to Blackpool during last month's three-day Whitsun weekend...
...Monday police arrived after a meeting of about 200 community residents hadended, arrested 17 persons in the vicinity of the park and dispersed a crowd of bystanders. Yesterday morning the 17 were arraigned in Brighton Courthouse and charged with "refusal to obey the lawful order of a police officer to disperse." Howard Price, connsel for three of the defendants, said last night...
Later, at 3:30 p. m., they will march to the Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Center to present a petition asking that the park land not be used for the boys' club...