Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THURSDAY. A third tape recording reached the Bronfman family. This time Sam's voice was even more urgent. He again protested the newspaper leaks and asked his family to stop "fooling around"; the situation was too "serious." Deeply concerned about the failure of the night before, the family sent a spokesman to read a statement to reporters at the gates of the estate. It urged the abductors to provide new instructions that were "clear, specific and practical" and "to renew their contacts by calling us at the number they originally indicated." The family had complied with all instructions...
Dick Gregory. Once a comedian and now a freelance left-activist, is speaking in the Science Center Thursday night on "How to Defeat the CIA." This is actually Gregory's second appearance here this summer; he gave a speech to graduating seniors in June, looking distinguished but emaciated from a great deal of fasting. Gregory told the seniors they were all "niggers" and in general didn't pull any punches, although I'm told it's all something of a routine--he spends a lot of time and makes a lot of money on the college lecture circuit...
...unrelenting enemies would admit that-and so his wife Josephine began to fret when he did not return home as planned last Wednesday after lunch. At 10 p.m., when he still had not shown up, she nervously called in some friends to keep her company. At 8 a.m. on Thursday, the family asked the police to look for him. They found his car, a dark green 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville hardtop, in the parking lot outside the fashionable Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, 15 miles northwest of Detroit. But there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa...
...kind of African R & B which should pack 'em in, at $3.50 a pop, at Paul's Mall through Aug. 3. Or you can see them free at 6 p.m. with the group Indigos tonight at Almost Park in Mattapan, Wednesday at Columbia Point Athletic Field, or Thursday at Franklin Field in Dorchester. Worth the ride...
...East Bay City Jazz Band will be laying down a mainstream sound at the Scotch and Sirloin, followed on Thursday by the Buzzy. Drootin Quintet, perhaps the best house band playing standards in Boston...