Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project to paint bridges across the Charles in rainbow hues was disclosed last week by Benjamin W. Fink, director of park engineering for the Metropolitan District Commission...
Just Collectors. Also in custody were 19 Minutemen, charged with such offenses as conspiracy to commit arson, illegal possession of weapons, incitement to riot and unlawful assembly. At their arraignment, attorneys suggested that the suspects were really no more than innocent "gun collectors." But the district attorney's men said they knew better. Agents from B.O.S.S., New York City's Bureau of Special Services, had infiltrated the organization and clocked the Minutemen's every move for nearly a year. They reported that the would-be guerrillas had crashed the weekend maneuvers of reserve military units to gain...
David A. Reed '68, a pacifist, was found guilty yesterday in Boston's U.S. District Court of two violations the Selective Service Laws -- failure to appear for a physical examination and failure to report for induction...
...credit, O'Connor has taken a few more liberal stands that Rockefeller (e.g., stronger support of the Civilian Review Board for New York City), but this is counterbalanced by an anti-civil libertarian record in the State Senate during the 1950's and an undistinguished performance as Queens County District Attorney and New York City Council President...
...which the film is based is "probably the best textbook on youth psychiatry ever to have appeared." U.S. and European critics have praised the film. When 491 reached New York in 1964, however, U.S. customs men barred it as an "immoral" import. In upholding the ban, U.S. District Judge Henry N. Graven ruled that 491 met all the Supreme Court tests of obscenity. "To the average person applying contemporary community (national) standards," held Graven, the film's "dominant theme as a whole appeals to the prurient interest." In addition, he said, "it is utterly without redeeming social importance...