Word: richardsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stories about various assignments, however, flow freely. During the South Africa demonstration in April, for instance, Richardson was posted inside Mass Hall. He just sat at President Bok's secretary's desk all night smoking cigarettes, "waiting with a bazooka," he jokes...
...Richardson won't say much to criticize the administration. He hopes to be a House superintendent some day--he was rejected recently when Eliot House had an opening--and he is understandably reluctant to voice gripes...
Sometimes it's the police who are at fault, he admits. In the early '70s, when clashes between demonstrators and police were at their height, Richardson saw a Cambridge police car trying to run over a student demonstrator on the grass between Winthrop and Kirkland Houses. The student fled into Winthrop with the cop in hot pursuit. Richardson pointed the officer in the wrong direction...
...Richardson's attitudes are rather paradoxical about "authority" and what it represents. For most of his life, he worked in the service of his nation--and many times he killed for it. In Vietnam, the bodies of the Vietnamese were piled "yea high." He holds his hand above his head in illustration. But devotion to country only goes so far. Outside Lowell House, Richardson's 1971 Chevy Impala has a bumper sticker on it summing up his attitudes about where the country is heading. "CRIME WOULDN'T PAY," the bumper sticker reads, "IF THE GOVERNMENT...
Politics, though, isn't something Richardson is much interested in talking about. He'd rather mention the $50 Savings Bond and two free theater tickets he won a few years ago for his design of the patch used on uniforms worn by security guards. The job itself interests him. He likes to talk about...