Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from November 1987:
SKI COUNCIL ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR COMPETITIVE RACE SEASON.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Established in 1950, the New York Capital District Ski Council has planned several events for the coming season, highlighted by sanctioned races and a competitive recreational skiing climax. Elaine Neiss, a member of the Single Ski Club and Council vice president for organized ...
DID YOU KNOW THAT...?(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... * SKIwee is the only children's instruction program offered on a national basis and is designed generally for children aged four through 12. Specific age groups vary among ski areas. * SKIwee incorporates a fun-filled, game-oriented concept in teaching, and many areas use ...
GE GETS $77 MILLION NAVY CONTRACT.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... SCHENECTADY The General Electric Co. was awarded a $77 million contract Friday by the U.S. Department of the Navy. The contract will go to the machinery operations division for naval nuclear ...
LECTURER TO DISCUSS PRISON PARADOX.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Prof. Harmon Wray will speak on "The Electric Cross: Capital Punishment and the Christian Faith" Monday at the College of Saint Rose in Albany. Wray's speech, part of the Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar Lecture Program, will focus on the paradoxes of the prison system in ...
ONE MORE TIME? LAKERS POISED TO BECOME FIRST REPEAT NBA CHAMP SINCE '69.(Sports)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Bill Barnard Associated Press The only thing the Los Angeles Lakers haven't accomplished in the Magic Johnson era is win consecutive championships. No NBA team has done that since the 1969 Boston Celtics, but this could be the year. Boston is a year older and ...
90 EXHIBITORS TO BE AT SNOW EXPO '87.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... More than 90 exhibitors have already signed up to participate in Snow Expo '87 to be held Friday through Sunday at the Empire State Plaza. The show hours are 5-9:30 p.m. on Friday, 1-9:30 p.m. on Saturday, and 1-6 p.m. on Sunday. The bazaar opens at 6 p.m., Friday and at 1 ...
LOCAL SKIERS WIN TROPHIES FROM COUNCIL.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Fourteen local skiers finished the1986-87 ski season in true championship form with recreational, dual- slalom and overall-season racing trophies from competition sanctioned by the New York Capital District Ski Council to prove it. Two skiers shared the same recreational skiing trophy in a ...
TAKE THIS CHANCE TO LEARN THE SPORT OF SKIING FOR FREE.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Special to the Snow Expo '87 section In January, anyone who has never tried skiing will get the chance of a lifetime as hundreds of ski shops and ski areas nationwide team up for the second annual "Let's Go Skiing, America!" month. Neophytes on the slopes ...
NATION'S OLDEST SKI SHOW OPENS NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Peg Shiro Special Supplements Writer For the 26th year and as the nation's oldest ski-oriented show, Snow Expo next weekend will preview the wintersports season for an anticipated 30,000 ski and winter enthusiasts from New York State, New England and Canada as they gear ...
SKI DECK STARS FLY HIGH TO SHOW THEIR STUFF.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Snow Expo showgoers will be especially interested in this year's indoor ski deck exhibition since it's being staged by a local company with two "hometown fellas" in the cast of four, all of whom have exceptional chances of winning spots on America's freestyle team for the 1988 Olympic ...
SKI FOR LEUKEMIA AND ENJOY A FREE DAY ON GORE'S SLOPES.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Peg Shiro Special Supplements Writer The annual Ski for Leukemia Day is scheduled this season for Sunday, Feb. 7, from noon to 4 p.m. at Gore Mountain in North Creek. According to Joan Meyer, executive director of the Upstate New York Chapter of the Leukemia ...
TAKE THE FAMILY SKIING? WELL, WHY NOT!(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Kathy O'Dell-Thompson Special to the Snow Expo '87 section The writer is the mother of three young skiers, public relations director at Vermont's Bolton Valley Ski Resort (a 6,000-acre year-round vacation center between Burlington and Montpelier) and a past program ...
PROGRAM FOR DISABLED SKIERS CONTINUES TO GROW IN POPULARITY.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Peg Shiro Special Supplements Writer Skiing for the disabled has grown tremendously over the past few years, both for skiers and volunteer instructors, according to Gwen Allard, administrative vice president for the Latham-based Eastern Professional Ski Instructors ...
NEWEST WARREN MILLER MOVIE TO BE SHOWN LATE THIS MONTH.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Internationally famous filmmaker Warren Miller has, for the 38th year, captured the power of skiing on film in his exciting new feature-length White Winter Heat, presented by Audi Quattro. For the 24th year, Capital District ski buffs can enjoy Miller's ski film spectacular this month, ...
SNOW EXPO BAZAAR BARGAINS ARE LEGENDARY.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... For the ninth year, the Snow Expo Bazaar in Meeting Room Six of the Empire Plaza's Convention Hall area will become a ski equipment shopper's bonanza next weekend. "We're excited, but we're bracing ourselves," said Jerry Danielski, president of the Capital District Ski ...
SECOND-GRADER IS TOPS IN NASTAR COMPETITION.(Snow Expo)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Peg Shiro Special Supplements Writer The news release dateline reads "ASPEN, Colo." and the letterhead says "NASTAR, Worldwide Ski Corp., The World's Largest Recreational Ski Racing Program." Next comes the headline - "Young Schenectady Skier Excels in Coca-Cola Jr ....
ANALYSIS METHOD TO SUMMIT MADNESS GORBACHEV PLAYS POLITICS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: John P. Wallach Hearst News Service If riding a roller coaster for weeks before finally setting a date for a summit suggested that Mikhail Gorbachev was in trouble at home, experts say the fact that the Soviet leader got what he wanted suggests that a deft operative is ...
TALE OF TWO COLONIE NIGHTMARES YEARS AFTER RAPE, POLICE FACE LAWSUIT.(Main)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Staff writer This is a story about two nightmares. Both nightmares began nearly eight years ago. Neither has really ended. For a young woman then living in Colonie, the nightmare began in the early hours of Nov. 25, 1979, when a man ...
GINSBURG'S PAST NO CLUE TO FUTURE.(Main)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Robert Pear with Jeff Gerth New York Times Douglas H. Ginsburg, President Reagan's new choice to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, is best known in Washington as an advocate of a conservative philosophy of government regulation, prodding agencies to decide ...
U.S. NAVY ALARMED BY SOVIET GAINS IN SUBMARINE WARFARE.(Main)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Stewart M. Powell Hearst News Service The Soviet Union is catching up to the United States in the dark, unforgiving world of undersea warfare with a shift to quieter submarines that poses far- reaching consequences for U.S. security and taxpayers' pocketbooks. ...
HALLOWEEN GETS CLASSY AND PUNK TRICK-OR-TREATERS TAKE A LIMO.(Main)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer A group of Niskayuna children found a way to enjoy the treats of Halloween Saturday night without all that low-class begging and dangerous wandering around in the dark. They went first-class in a fancy stretch limousine complete with ...
FROM ONE CRASH TO ANOTHER.(Main)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Dr. Ravi Batra One of the top trade theorists in the world, Dr. Ravi Batra is a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, where he received his appointment to a full professorship at age 30. He was ranked third in a group of 46 "superstars" selected from ...
CANDIDATES DIFFER ON LEADERSHIP *RIVAL SAYS DAILEY'S STYLE HURTS CLIFTON PARK.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Marc Carey Staff writer Democratic town Supervisor Kevin Dailey is being opposed by political novice Steven Etkin - as well as an overwhelming Republican enrollment advantage. If Dailey wins, it will be the first time a Democrat has been elected town ...
BIG WHISPER STILL ECHOES FOR TROOPER.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Fred LeBrun Twenty years ago this weekend, the mayor of Albany, Erastus Corning 2nd, was arrested in Colonie for drunken driving. It was a big whisper back then, one of few public embarrassments that ever came close to sticking on this legendary political ...
FIRE HITS 3 BUILDINGS; 5 FAMILIES HOMELESS.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Careless use of smoking materials has been deemed the cause of an early- morning blaze that damaged three buildings on Broad Street Saturday, leaving five families homeless. Albany Fire Department investigator John Montesano said the source of the fire, which started about 12:30 ...
SARATOGA COUNTY DEDICATES $10M JAIL 200 COME TO SEE 140-CELL FACILITY.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Mary Chris Kuhr Staff writer Though they they had joked about costumes being optional at Saturday's dedication ceremonies for the new county jail, Saratoga County officials seemed as surprised as the audience of 200 when someone with the Halloween spirit appeared to take ...
MAN HIT BY CAR LISTED AS CRITICAL.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... A man was in critical condition in the intensive-care unit at Albany Medical Center Hospital Saturday evening, after he was struck by a car on Lincoln Avenue earlier in the day. Brian J. Hayes, 28, of 119 Third St. in Watervliet, was struck by an automobile at 1:35 a.m. Saturday ...
FIREFIGHTER HURT IN FALL FROM TRUCK.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... A city firefighter was injured early Saturday afternoon when he fell from the firetruck he was riding as it arrived at the scene of a fire. Frederick Collins, who has been with the Schenectady Fire Department for about 15 years, suffered a broken leg after he fell from the ...
3 TEENAGERS ARRESTED IN ARSON ATTEMPT.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Three teenagers, suspected of leaving a burning Molotov cocktail at an Albany residence where they'd been turned away from a house party, were arrested on an arson charge Saturday. The Albany suspects each were charged with arson in the first degree after Richard Miani of ...
DRUG ARRESTS LAND 7 MEN IN SPA CO. JAIL.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Seven men were being held Saturday in the Saratoga County Jail on drug-related charges in two unrelated cases, police said. State Police Trooper Thomas Aiken stopped two Vermont residents at 1:30 p.m. Friday on Route 87 in Wilton in an unspecified traffic investigation and discovered what ...
CORONER, COMPTROLLER JOBS UP.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Overshadowed by the high visibility of the contest for the countyexecutive post in Albany County are three other countywide races. On the ballot Tuesday will be candidates for county comptroller and two county coroner positions now held by Democrats. Incumbent ...
$10M ARENA FLAP SPICES ALBANY CO. RACE.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Kenneth C. Crowe II Staff writer It took a controversial price tag to pump some excitement into a dull Albany County executive race between James J. Coyne Jr., the Democratic incumbent, and Robert P. Walker, the Republican challenger. The campaign had been ...
SYRACUSE COLLECTS $230G IN TICKET AMNESTY PLAN.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: United Press International The city has collected nearly $230,000 during its 2 1/2-week parking ticket amnesty program and police nabbed 16 people wanted for non-traffic matters as they paid their tickets, officials said Saturday. The amnesty program came to ...
FENIMORE BRIDGE REOPENS WITH NEW WEIGHT LIMIT.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... The Fenimore Bridge, a steel span linking Saratoga and Washington counties that was heavily used until it was closed earlier this year because of structural weaknesses, has been reopened to traffic, but with a weight restriction. The bridge, which carries county Route 27 from ...
SOVIET RHETORIC CAN'T HOLD WATER IN BOILER ROOMS.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Robert Gillette From Estonia on the Baltic to Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast, Mikhail S. Gorbachev has carried his call for perestroika - his word for revitalizing Soviet society - to a skeptical public with the fervor of a born-again evangelist. "What we ...
CLOTHES CALL IT'S AGAIN TIME FOR STUDENTS TO STOP DRESSING IN EVERYTHING FR OM JUNK TO PUNK.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Jonathan Yardley So long as everyone is madly improving the schools, here's a modest suggestion: Let's improve the way the children dress. The notion may sound frivolous - what's a pair of blue jeans, after all, when the nation's SAT scores are on the line? - but in fact ...
IS MARRIAGE NOW A ROYAL PAIN? CHARLES, DI HAVE BRITISH TAKING DIVORCE SERIOUSLY.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Karen DeYoung If it was October, there must have been rumors of trouble in the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana. October is the month Charles spends fishing and hunting at Balmoral, the royal family's Scottish estate. Diana, who reportedly finds ...
MILITARY SECRETS EASY TO CRACK, USING PHONE BOOK OR MAGAZINE.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Mark Hosenball Do you wanna know a secret? If so, there's no need to go out and find yourself a Deep Throat. All you need to do is to visit a good library. The U.S. government runs some of the best. It was in government libraries that a writer for The ...
'WASHINGTON WIVES' WHEN IT COMES TO BAD NOVELS, IT DOESN'T GET MUCH WORSE.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Christopher Hitchens "Washington Wives," by Maureen Dean, Arbor House, 315 pages, $17.95. There is only one thought-provoking sentence in this entire "novel," and it comes right at the beginning. Here it is: "Washington is a city of dreams, great ...
YANKS TO STAY IN N.Y.(Sports)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Associated Press City and state officials reached an agreement with the New York Yankees Saturday that will keep the baseball team in the Bronx until well into the next century, officials said. The agreement to extend the team's lease on Yankee Stadium until ...
INVESTMENT CLUBS' BELIEF UNSHAKABLE.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Mark S.R. Suchecki Business writer The tempestuous stock market of the last two weeks has not jarred the belief of many small investors that the market is a sound investment - if the views of Capital District investment-club members are any indication. ...
*GOVERNMENT TO STAVE OFF PROBLEMS REGIONALLY.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Nancy Hass Business writer The Capital District's high level of government employment should insulate the area from the worst shocks of a short-term recession, according to several local economists. But a prominent federal labor official cautioned Capital ...
THREE PROMOTED BY FIRST AMERICAN STEUBEN CLUB NAMES TWO MANAGERS GARLICK LEWIS IS ACADEMY PR DIRECTOR SUPERMARKET PROMOTES GERVAIS, MERE BROCKMAN JOINS STETSON-HARZA OFFICE ASB APPOINTS STURN, TOMSONS PIASCIK, PERSBACKER EARN PROMOTIONS.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Steve Noble has joined the staff of First American Bank of New York as assistant vice president assigned to the commercial loan group. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Delta State University in Cleveland. He will be responsible for ...
NORSTAR BANCORP ADDS DIVISION.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Norstar Bancorp, in prepration with its merger into Fleet Financial Group of Providence, R.I., is establishing a products and services division, said Eugene T. Mann, senior executive vice president of the Albany-based financial services company. The new division will be ...
MARKETING AGENCY IS OPENED.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... The former manager of marketing communication for General Electric's gas turbine division has opened his own industrial marketing agency here. Salvin J. Cognetti, who opened his offices in Canal Square in September, worked for 35 years at the GE turbine division. He said last ...
SENECAL FORMS INVESTMENT FIRM.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Wayne T. Senecal, a principal in Interlaken, a 500-unit development between Lake Lonely and Saratoga Lake, has announced the formation of an independent real-estate investment and development firm to operate primarily in the Capital District. The firm, New Century Development ...
ECONOMISTS DIVIDED ON POSSIBILITY OF RECESSION *LONG-TERM DEFICIT CUT AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT.(Business)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Tom Redburn and Oswald Johnston Los Angeles Times Can the U.S. economy avoid a recession in the wake of the stock market debacle? Some economists now are convinced that a serious economic downturn is inevitable within months. But many analysts insist there is ...
THE LAWMAKERS.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Dan Lynch The man's name is Richard A. Weibe, and he is paid $85,860 a year by the taxpayers of this state to run something called the Senate Republican Program Office. This is an operation with only one purpose - to maintain the Republican majority in the ...
CLIFTON COMMON'S DEFEAT.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... In the aftermath of the vote on the Clifton Common I have spent many hours reflecting on the issue to try to gain some insight as to what the voters said and, more importantly, why. My conclusions are disappointing. I will preface my comments by saying that I strongly supported ...
FOR RENSSELAER COUNTY SHERIFF KEVIN DAILEY.(Perspective)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Once again the voters of Rensselaer County face a difficult choice in the sheriff's race. This time around the man who ousted previous sheriff, is himself being heavily challenged. Democrat William McGreevy, who has served a single three-year term, is running hard against Bob ...
JACKSON ALTERS RHETORICAL TIMBRE TO TEST PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Richard Wexler Capitol bureau If his speech here Friday is any indication, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, preacher and presidential candidate, is trying hard to sound less like a preacher and more like a candidate. During his first run for the Democratic ...
MILLIONS OF WOMEN WAIT FOR ENDOMETRIOSIS CURE.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Judy Shepard Staff writer For some, it means pain so severe they are unable to walk; for others, the only symptom is infertility. Endometriosis, a mysterious disease that may affect as many as 10 million American women, is slowly yielding its secrets to ...
STATE HOME TO IMMIGRANTS IN THE WILD.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Stephen Frank Staff writer This is a story about New York's immigrants. Not Ellis Island's tempest-tossed, teeming masses, but alien plants and animals that have been arriving on state shores since Colonial times. Some of the transplants have traveled steerage - ...
TRADITIONAL PATTERNS GAIN FASHION STATUS.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer EDITOR'S NOTE: The author is a native Scot, a Lowlander from Glasgow. Bring forrit the tartan!" Gen. Sir Colin Campbell cried in 1857 to encourage his Sutherland Highlanders as they stormed a rebel fort. It's ...
COMPUTER CRUNCHES LANDERS' LETTERS.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Paula Voell (C) 1987 Buffalo News EDITOR'S NOTE: Since 1955, Esther Pauline Lederer has been known to the world as Ann Landers, advice columnist extraordinaire. Now, Cornell University professor David Grossvogel, a Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, has fed 30 ...
ANN CALLS TIMING KEY TO SUCCESS.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Joan Danzig (C) 1987 Buffalo News Ann Landers, who usually has the last word on all topics, says: "I think the book is fascinating. It should make a valuable contribution to understanding the changes that have occurred in our society these last 30 years." She ...
A LONG WAY FROM THE HIGHLANDS.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Irene Gardner Keeney Staff writer Tartans can be found everywhere - literally. Tartan went to the moon in 1968 along with Cmdr. Alan L. Bean, a member of the Macbean clan. There's a red, white and blue tartan commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial. The state of ...
WHERE TO TURN FOR SUPPORT.(Living Today)
Nov 01, 1987 ... If you have endometriosis, or think you do, there is help available. A regional chapter of the Endometriosis Association is organizing, with a meeting scheduled for Nov. 23 at Bellevue Hospital in Schenectady at 7:30 p.m. "A diagnosis is not a prerequisite for ...
'NUNSENSE' HITS COHOES STAGE.(Show)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor Dan Goggin loves nuns. And so he should. A handful of high-kicking ladies in black habits is making him a multimillionaire. "God has been good," says Goggin, 44-year-old creator of "Nunsense." Heritage Artists ...
UNION CONCERT CELEBRATES MUSIC WEEK.(Show)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Hey, kids! What week is it?! It's "American Music Week." And with a bow to that often overlooked celebration of American composers, Union College in Schenectady has scheduled a special concert for 8 p.m. Friday which will bring together two area composers and a ...
MUSEUM PUSHES SUPPORT GROUP.(Show)
Nov 01, 1987 ... The New York State Museum is offering free tickets to its "Dinosaurs Alive!" exhibit to those who join its support group, the New York State Museum Associates. New members will receive two free tickets to "Dinosaurs Alive!" as well as an invitation to a special members- only ...
A PLETHORA OF GRANTS SETTLES ON THEATER, SYMPHONY AND HYDE.(Show)
Nov 01, 1987 ... GRANTSMANSHIP: Six-figure challenge grants from the National Endowment for the Arts - the answer to a fund-raiser's prayer - had been pretty scarce around this area for some time. In fact, last year's $100,000 grant to Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady was the first in four ...
SHANGRI-LA - CHINESE ON THE DIM- SUM ROUTE.(Show)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Vinod Chhabra Staff writer A little hand-lettered sign by the exit spells hope. They're looking for an experienced waiter. Until someone takes up the offer (which comes with "free meal" and "free uniform") for service, you'll practically have to trip the somber, harried ...
FAIR HELPS BRING PAST UP TO PAR HOMEOWNERS GATHER FOR ADVICE ON RESTORATION.(Local)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Catherine Clabby Staff writer Rehab Fair Northeast is a feast for homeowners with a longing to replicate bits of the past in the present. Two people with that hunger, Jack and Cindy Kozuchowski, said Saturday they drove from Danbury, Conn., looking for advice ...
KATIE IN JUNGLELAND, OR ...(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1987 ... Byline: Bettina Stoller The Making of The African Queen or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind, by Katharine Hepburn; Alfred A. Knopf; $15.95; 129 pages. The first thing that you should know about Katharine Hepburn's virgin ...