Word: md
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN J. GARZI Glen Burnie, Md...
...says Mary Beth Brill, an unabashed eighth-grader in the "new town" of Columbia, Md. Yet the Wilde Lake Middle School (grades 6 through 8), which she now attends, looks at first like a model of irresponsibility. It lacks neat classrooms, desks in rows, hands raised before speaking. Many of its 750 students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with...
After two years of frustration, the seniors on the Harvard sailing team will finally get a clear shot at the National Sailing Championship today and tomorrow at Annapolis, Md...
...four months Father Daniel Berrigan, convicted of burning draft files at Catonsville, Md., was that melodramatic figure, a fugitive from justice. Before his capture by FBI agents posing as bird watchers on Block Island, R.I., that rainy morning of Aug. 11, 1970, Berrigan had traveled through his own bold underground. He gave out secret interviews to press and television, held discussion meetings within the movement, and wrote, wrote, wrote. It is safe to say that no fugitive in FBI history has written so much so fast...
...kind and only 34 inhabitants. Yet in the past decade, Novel has witnessed a remarkable 800 to 900 weddings. Couples itching to be hitched flock there from all over France and neighboring Switzerland, only a mountain torrent and a small bridge away. What makes Novel the Elkton, Md., or Gretna Green, Scotland, of France is the hamlet's mayor, René Bouvet. An athletic, effervescent man of 42, Bouvet does not believe in the ten-day posting of the bans or the month-long residency required by French law. His motto: "Just...