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...talker. My friend the town clerk is so beset by journalists in search of the average New Hampshireman that he speaks only to Theodore White and James Reston, and I am the likeliest interview subject that the No. 2 talker could come up with. We are standing in my wood lot, surrounded by beechwood slash and camera cables. Since this is a carefully produced fantasy, I am wearing a DeKalb Seed Corn baseball cap, a green-and-black checked wool shirt, Ralph Lauren gum boots, and bib overalls with an alligator on the pocket.) "I see. Can you tell...
...very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
BOSTON SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT Robert C. Wood was right when he said on Friday that Boston's racial climate, rather than the school system, was responsible for explosions of racial hate that burned throughout the city this week. But though his analysis of the cause of tensions is correct, his solution--a $100,000 addition to the school budget for more security personnel--offers no more than a thimbleful of relief to the thousands of Bostonians affected by their neighbors' renewed hostilities...
...Library Corporation's decision brought an unexpected response, triggering almost frantic bids for a piece of the prestigious memorial. President Robert C. Wood of the University of Massachusetts was the first of 175 interested parties out of the starting blocks, issuing an invitiation to the corporation to come to either the UMass Boston or Amherst campus. Wood, The Crimson reported, "launched a massive campaign to bring the memorial to UMass even when the odds were ridiculously stacked against him." It was early 1975. Charles U. Daly, then vice president for government and community affairs, commented: "Ten years ago if someone...
...Gazette soared to roughly what the Star's had been before the dispute. By the time the Star resumed publication, its readership had plummeted to the Gazette's old level. (The French-language La Presse [circ. 175,000] also fattened from the strike.) Said Star Publisher Art Wood after last week's announcement: "The simple truth is that Montreal could no longer support two independent English-language dailies like the Star and the Gazette, and the people of Montreal chose the Gazette...