Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called at home and asked to go to the courthouse and stamp it as filed. Counsel arrived at 12:15, the clerk at 12:45; by 1 p.m. the papers were duly stamped. Unfortunately, Mr. Freeman had died at 12:20. But a U.S. judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania has just ruled that the action could be considered filed at the moment counsel arrived; Mrs. Freeman won her race after all. The damage suit against the shipowner and Universal Terminal & Stevedoring Corp. will now go to trial...
...good film is one that makes money," concludes Sack. Don't knock the profit motive. It has permitted Ben Sack to bring new life to the Boston theatre district. Certainly, Sack's success has encouraged the creation of Boston's new independent theatres like the Abbey and the Charles Cinema. Sack makes no promises about his films. You can be sure that the popcorn will be buttered better, even if the film isn't quite up to par. And when your great-grandson gulps down his soma and runs out for a night at the "feelies," you can also...
...steeples point for all to see toward the virtuous life. Railroad tracks dwindle northward toward Boston, an unconcerned hour away. This is Tarbox, Mass., the setting of John Updike's new novel Couples, where primitive American democracy reveals itself in town meetings, and three streets of the business district are named Hope, Charity and Divinity...
...abroad-last week prompted the Federal Reserve Board to give the nation its third dose in five months of some painful economic medicine: higher interest rates. The Reserve Board voted unanimously to raise its discount rate from 5% to 51%. That increase in the amount the Fed's district banks charge for borrowed funds applied initially to loans to member banks from the Federal Reserve banks of New York, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. The other nine reserve banks were expected to take similar action quickly...
Preliminary hearings in the case closed shortly after noon in U.S. District Court. Judge Francis J. W. Ford will announce his rulings on the motions of the defense within the next few days...