Word: westbrook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I watch TV now," says Hugh Saunders, president of a dowel-making firm in Westbrook, Me., "I feel angry to think that this country took so long to realize that it was destroying itself and the Vietnamese by being there." Complains Lawrence Sullivan, an official of the Greater Boston Labor Council: "I hear Schlesinger and Kissinger, and I say, 'Hey, you're not speaking...
...Swinging Marriage. Marriage and sex counselors believe that open marriage-an agreement to allow outside affairs-may still have a future, but the naive optimism is gone. Many counselors report severe and often unexpected problems of jealousy ("something whose power we all underestimated," writes Novelist Robert Westbrook, whose open marriage broke up). In their new book, Shifting Gears, Nena and George O'Neill, co-authors of the sunny bestseller Open Marriage, say (somewhat obscurely) they are recommending "change and growth" and "not a swinging marriage...
...Though not a radical, he enjoyed the endorsement of black and white community organizers alike. Indeed, the behavior of the SLA in killing Foster and kidnaping Hearst led at least one black spokesman in California to question whether the SLA was not simply exploiting DeFreeze as a figurehead. Colston Westbrook, a Berkeley linguistics instructor who met DeFreeze through the Vacaville Black Culture Association, said in April, "I think the honkies are calling the shots. [DeFreeze had] better wake...
...Constable, and Stringers Paul Ciotti, Glenn Garvin and Gail Kennard. By questioning witnesses to last week's bank robbery, the team produced a thorough account of it. They also got exclusive interviews with members of the Hearst family last week. Boyce won the confidence of Linguistics Instructor Colston Westbrook, the former S.L.A. intimate who is now in hiding, and learned from him about the organization's early history. Boyce, in fact, recently arranged a phone conversation between Westbrook, then under cover on the East Coast, and a man eager to talk with him-Randolph A. Hearst...
...Westbrook felt that he was marked for execution "because I'm a threat in general to the S.L.A. I know quite a bit about them. I can analyze their moods and see through them." He admitted that he had detailed information about the S.L.A. and that he had talked about the organization to the Oakland police...