Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether the timing is right for such stimulus to the economy is highly debatable. Prime Minister James Callaghan a few weeks ago told the Labor Party conference in Brighton that Britain is on the verge of an era of prosperity that "will eclipse anything seen since we became an industrial power 200 years ago." In his speech last week, Healey optimistically forecast that inflation would fall to a single figure. At present, inflation, though down, is still running at a high annual rate of 16.5%, and some unions are pushing for wage boosts going beyond the government's guideline...
Five years ago, when Boston Policeman John O'Brien was rounding the corner of Brighton's Commonwealth Avenue and Washington Street at 10 m.p.h. in broad daylight, he lost control of his police car and struck an elderly woman named Bridget Neville. Six months in the hospital and $32,000 in medical bills later, Neville, now 83, won a belated jury award of $103,253. Fair enough...
...does not perform abortions itself but refers students to clinics in the Boston area, usually the Crittenton Clinic in Brighton...
...Luke's Episcopal Church. Musica Humana presents a program of Renaissance music at 3:30 p.m. at 7 St. Luke's Rd., Brighton. Free. Information...
Dose of Escapism. In somewhat more veiled fashion, former Prime Minister Edward Heath said much the same thing as Macmillan at the Tories' conference in Brighton earlier this month. Another former Tory minister, Lord Hailsham, recently called for nothing less than scrapping the ancient parliamentary system ("an elective dictatorship") and replacing it with an American-style written constitution...