Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stylish egocentrics known only as The Actor (Brian Bedford) and The Actress (Maggie Smith) feel that the statute of limitations may be running out on their restively argumentative marriage. They have been married only six months. Apart from being dogged by a creditor (Richard Whelan), the husband has the jitters. He knows that prior to the marriage his wife had had nine liaisons and that each affair lasted exactly six months. Madly in love with her, the husband decides to put his wife's devotion to the test. He will try to seduce her in the guise...
...journalist, Demarest has savored vicariously the indulgences of the moneyed, covering such gathering places of the wealthy as Manhattan's Palace Restaurant, where he attended a $500-per-head prix fixe dinner; the Duke of Bedford's bashes; and sundry Sotheby sales, where the rich auction off their baubles. One millionaire Demarest met lived on the ocean liner Ile de France-crossing and recrossing the Atlantic. Demarest speculates that the eccentric bon vivant, keeping up with the times, now lives aboard a Concorde. "Of the newly rich people I have known, few seemed really fulfilled," says Demarest. "Others...
...current Cadillac, but vows: "I'll never buy another one." Richard Otis, a bricklayer in Memphis, had been thinking about buying a Lincoln Continental, but is now looking at smaller cars. Even without the possibility of increased oil-heating costs, Patty Hotchkiss, a town board member in Bedford, N.Y., is looking for a small, well-insulated house to replace her large, drafty one. But she didn't need Carter to inspire the move; her oil bill for January...
...catch was a fluke-only once before this year had Boucher caught any yellowtail flounder-but New England fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took effect on March 1, extending U.S. jurisdiction over fishing in coastal waters to 200 miles from the old limit of twelve. The law is intended to save from extinction many species of fish-as well as much of the U.S. fishing industry...
...argue that the Government should prohibit foreign fishing altogether in U.S. waters. But most welcome the new law, even though the quotas also limit their catches. Already, the promise of greater return is spurring some new investment. Next year 21 new steel-hulled vessels will be added to New Bedford's 175-boat fishing fleet...