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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the Coop, at 47 Palmer Street--the alley near the book annex--is Passim, a coffee house with by far the best folk music that Cambridge has to offer. Open Thursday through Sunday nights, The Listening Room at Passim, as the haven is called, books only the best local musicians, most of whom have released their own albums. Professional yet relaxed, the musicians let you know just how good live music can be, while the audience sways, sings and smiles along...
Last December, the National Labor Relations Board certified District 65, which represents 900 clerks, typists, and technical employees, and Local 925, which represents 20 professional librarians...
...week's end White and Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) announced a citizens' fund-raising drive to "save our Stuarts," and the two museums agreed to postpone the sale until 1980. Meanwhile the local newspapers could not resist some word slinging of their own. "Free George and Martha!" demanded the Washington Post. Sniffed the Boston Globe: "The proposed deal is akin to, say, selling Faneuil Hall to the state of Arizona as a tourist attraction." The New York Times offered its own cheeky compromise: since New York City is equidistant from the feuding cities, why not let George...
What followed, however, would have been remarkable if not unthinkable in Chicago or in many other major American cities just a few years ago. Gay Life, a local homosexual weekly, organized street patrols to stop the assaults. They were also aided by "straight" volunteers from neighborhood community associations. Moreover, they were helped by the Chicago police. Says a rather astonished Grant Ford, publisher of Gay Life: "The community groups came to our help right away. They saw us as neighbors rather than gays. The police were even more amazing. They were totally cooperative...
Originally devised 19 years ago for his patients, the diet is the brainchild of Dr. Herman Tarnower, 69, a Scarsdale, N.Y., cardiologist and internist. Mimeographed copies of his diet gradually made the rounds of local country clubs, were lent by enthusiasts to friends in other parts of the country and were eventually taped on refrigerators from New York to California. Not surprisingly, the good doctor was prevailed upon to write a book, padding his original diet with 244 pages of familiar advice and additional menus. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (Rawson, Wade; $7.95), whose cover boasts, LOSE...