Word: pittsfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arlo, he wandered off with a guest talking about a tree house he wanted to build in the woods. Alice's Restaurant, the Arthur Penn movie based on his song, had opened the night before in nearby Pittsfield and had been roundly snarled at by two local critics. If Arlo knew, he didn't care. He was a married man now, and what mattered was taking care of the roses, buying a plow for his four-wheel-drive truck and rounding up those puppies...
...Pittsfield, unknown persons set fire to the local draft board offices, destroying a number of Selective Service records. The state fire marshal's office and the FBI were called in to head an investigation of the blaze...
...implication in his back-to-work announcement was that he carried a kind of renewed mandate. To be sure, the people of Massachusetts, from Pittsfield to Boston, had responded to Kennedy's testing of their faith with a sort of spontaneous plebiscite, an outpouring of letters and telegrams affirming their confidence. But, said the Boston Globe: "It is a bit like an umpire turning about in Fenway Park to ask the audience whether Carl Yastrzemski is safe at the plate...
...committee also voted to accept the recommendation of school Superintendent Edward Conley that Richard S. Phelphs of Pittsfield be appointed to the new post of Director of Language Arts. Conley had made the recommendation last week but it was tabled upon the request of committee-man Daniel J. Clinton. Clinton also introduced the motion last week that the rules of the School Committee be changed to read, "Examination for promotion and appointment to 'Major positions' shall be open to members of the faculty of the Cambridge Public Schools only...
...Pittsfield, Mass...