Word: freda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much to look at this year. Freshman representative Saundra Graham, who represents the 28th Middlesex district, which includes the area surrounding Harvard Square, was unopposed in the primary. Now she is well on her way to a second term in the Massachusetts House, but for one general election adversary--Freda Lee Mason, a Libertarian...
Your choices: For representative, there is either the liberal Saundra Graham or the libertarian Freda Mason. In the state senatorial race west of Harvard Square, you can vote for the conservative Frank McCann or the libertarian Stephen Tringward. From Harvard Square to the East, you have no choice but the varied political views of Mike LoPresti...
...DIED. Freda Utley, 79, acerbic, English-born author (Odyssey of a Liberal, Last Chance in China), and journalist; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A member of the British Communist Party, she moved to the Soviet Union in 1930 but grew disillusioned with Stalin's regime when her Soviet husband was exiled to Siberia, where he died in a concentration camp. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, became a foreign correspondent for the Reader's Digest, and during the McCarthy hearings of 1950 testified about Communist influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Far East...
...raucous, picaresque, raunchy kind of charm, at least initially. Two black con men (Raymond St. Jacques and Philip Thomas) descend on an Arkansas town called El Dorado during the early '30s to start a numbers bank. Thomas has a rather meandering love affair with a "high yellow" woman (Freda Payne), leaving him little time to help St. Jacques fight off racist law officers and greedy white gangsters. St. Jacques, who also directed, works in some nice period feeling and a couple of quick, glancing social asides about the daily indignities of being black. After a promising few first minutes...
...friends may be innocent. Last August district attorneys who were investigating other terrorist acts charged two neo-Fascists with the Milan bombing. A consignment of 50 clockwork timers, exactly like those used in the bombings, was traced to one of the suspects, a bookseller from Padua named Franco Freda. Furthermore, the briefcases in which the bombs were hidden were all purchased in a Padua store only a block from Freda's bookshop. Worst of all, it now appears that high-ranking police officials tried to conceal some of this evidence...