Word: clarendon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white Datsun while trying to uncover the activities of organized crime in Arizona, and like the blood-stained pavement where he was killed, his memory has now begun to fade as well. Two years later, the asphalt where Bolles was murdered has been repaired, and the Clarendon Hotel, in whose parking lot the bomb blast occurred, has commemorated the event in a strangely appropriate if unintentional fashion--by changing its name in recognition of the unfavorable publicity the hotel received as the murder site...
Back in 1973 when the fledgling organization was still settling in on the seventh floor of the Clarendon Street YWCA, 9to5's founders envisioned the organization as a clearinghouse of information for women office workers, with a small staff that might help resolve grievances with employers. (At that time, except for government employees, almost none of the city's officeworkers were in unions or organized in any way.) Last May, Joan Tighe, one of the founders, said the group had "succeeded beyond my wildest dreams...
...Arizona politics--Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rep. Sam Steiger, and state GOP chairman Harry Rosenzweig. Bolles was skeptical--it just sounded wrong, and he really didn't intend to do the story himself. Nevertheless, he made a deal to meet the man, next Tuesday, after the Memorial weekend, at the Clarendon House hotel...
...tipster wasn't at the Clarendon House, but he did receive a phone call. Bolles told the caller to go to the state capitol and went back to get in his car. He backed up a few feet, then turned his wheels. An explosion blew out the windshield, blew a two-foot hole under the driver's seat. Doctors amputated one leg, an arm, another leg, to save his life. He developed pneumonia. Finally, on June 13, he died. Curiosity killed Don Bolles...
...Together: Well done, well crafted modern dance by Dorothy Hershkowitz and Amy Ellsworth of the Dance Circle of Boston. April 29 - 30 at New England Life Hall, 225 Clarendon Street...