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SCHWEPPES AND CINEMA

Feb 01, 1987 ... Sir Adrian Cadbury, chairman of Cadbury Schweppes PLC, ranout of patience last week with encroachments from across theAtlantic, telling General Cinema to butt out of his business.Cadbury dashed off a testy letter to Cinema's chairman,Richard Smith, after Smith had quietly ...

SERVICES

Feb 01, 1987 ... Andrew M. McKean, convention services manager, Royal SonestaHotel, Cambridge; Thomas A. Buffum, chairman and manager of Bostonoffice, Barger & Sargeant Inc.; William F. Coleman, ...

RETAIL

Feb 01, 1987 ... James Flavin, senior vice president & chief financial officer,Filene's, Boston; Richard Sherwin, director of marketing, DunhamFootwear Co., Brattleboro; John ...

MEDICINE

Feb 01, 1987 ... Daniel C. Burnes, president, Continuing Care Associates ...

INDUSTRY

Feb 01, 1987 ... Clark G. Fiester, group vice president and general manager,Donald Littler and James Peoples, division vice presidents andgeneral managers, Donald Newcombe, director, GTE Government ...

FINANCE

Feb 01, 1987 ... Cathy Brooks, programming officer, Kenneth M. Johnson, investmentofficer, Beth A. DePrimeo, branch officer, Yvonne M. Pefine,assistant ...

DIRECTORS

Feb 01, 1987 ... Community Bankshares Inc., Concord, N.H. -- Russell A. Holden,regional director, N.E. Electric System, Westborough, LuciaKittredge, ...

COMMUNICATIONS

Feb 01, 1987 ... Betsie Sauereisen, cq account executive, WMEX-WMJX salesdepartment, Boston; Dennis Gray, senior executive producer, LouiseSantin, account manager, Charlotte Glinka, account supervisor, ...

PUBLISHER NAMES OLER

Feb 01, 1987 ... Addison - esley Publishing Co., the Reading-based publisher ofeducational materials and nonfiction trade books, has named R.Wayne Oler president and chief operating officer. Donald R.Hammonds, chief executive officer, has been named chairman of theboard.Oler joined ...

MUNICIPAL BONDS AVAILABLE AT A BANK OR BROKERAGE HOUSE

Feb 01, 1987; ... Q. We have $20,000 to invest and are considering municipal bonds,due to our 35 percent income tax rate. How does one buy individualmunicipal bonds? -- M.B., HaverhillA. The individual bonds can be purchased either through a bankor a brokerage house. Most now are issued in $5,000 ...

A SWITCH: SELL LESS, MAKE MORE

Feb 01, 1987; ... On its face, said William B. Ellis, chief executive officer ofNew England's largest electric utility, the idea seems crazy."Why in the world," he asked, "would a profit-making organizationdeliberately try to sell less of its product?"The answer, he said, is to make more money -- ...

A FRESH CATCH FOR FISHING INDUSTRY

Feb 01, 1987; ... HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - Americans are eating a lot more fishthese days and Canadians, the world's leading exporters of fish,couldn't be happier about it. The continuing demand for fish, and the record high pricesAmericans are paying, are prime reasons that the long ...

IN PRAISE OF A NEW HERO

Feb 01, 1987; ... Last week Exxon Corp. reported having made the largest profits ofany American corporation in 1986, more than rivals IBM Corp. andGeneral Motors Corp., even though the price of oil halved at thebeginning of the year. To be sure, 1986 earnings were down over theyear earlier, but they were ...

AIDS: TO TEST OR NOT TO TEST? WITHOUT A COMPROMISE, A SHOWDOWN IS IMMINENT

Feb 01, 1987; ... nless a compromise can be found, a raging debate over AIDStesting by insurance companies in Massachusetts may eventually testthe limits of Peter Hiam's authority over the industry he regulates.Hiam, the state's commissioner of insurance, says he opposesinsurance companies screening ...

HASBANY NO HAS-BEEN

Feb 01, 1987; ... Simply put, Dan Hasbany has done a terrific job. He has won six straight training titles at Rockingham Park,is well on his way to a seventh and was given a special achievementaward by the New England Turf Writers in November. And he hasaccomplished all this despite suffering a ...

DON'T COME INTO THIS COLD FOR WINTER CAMPING, YOUR ATTITUDE SHOULD BE AS STURDY AS YOUR SNOWSHOES

Feb 01, 1987; ... We are winter camping today, an activity that, because it'svoluntary, is considered by some to be even more moronic thanshoveling snow. In fact, we are shoveling snow, to create a levelspot for the tent. The temperature here in the Adirondacks is 18degrees, but because of all the physical ...

NIAGARA CAN'T SLOW DOWN NU AFTER VEXING FIRST HALF, HUSKIES MAKE FAST WORK OF PURPLE EAGLES, 60-50

Feb 01, 1987; ... Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the Northeastern's 60-50victory over Niagara last night at Matthews Arena wasn't the finalscore itself, but the manner in which this ECAC North Atlanticcontest began.It was billed as a summit meeting between conference ...

TARKANIAN IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF REBELS KEEP RUNNIN' TO UNLV, WHERE TALENTED BUT TROUBLED KIDS FIND A FAST BREAK

Feb 01, 1987; ... LAS VEGAS - It has taken him 26 years to do it, but JerryTarkanian finally has recruited the kind of athlete no one said hecould. He's recruited a student-athlete.And not just a student, but the valedictorian of his class."Clifford Allen will be the first ...

PROVIDENCE GUNS DOWN NO. 15 ST. JOHN'S, 93-81

Feb 01, 1987; ... PROVIDENCE - This time the Friars wasted a five-point leadin the final 18 seconds, and began overtime with four players onefoul short of disqualification. And still Providence won the big quinella, followingWednesday night's buzzer-beating of Georgetown with last ...

PROVIDENCE LANDS PAIR FROM THAYER

Feb 01, 1987; ... Providence College has two Thayer Academy players headed its way.They're 5-foot-10-inch, 180-pound defenseman Larry Rooney fromSouth Boston and 5-11, 185-pound forward Paul Flaherty fromDorchester's Neponset section."Two blue-chippers, for sure," said Friars coach Mike ...

A MIDWINTER DOSE OF BEANPOT FEVER

Feb 01, 1987; ... Just as Terry Taillefer went past the monitor showing areplay of last year's Beanpot final in Boston Garden's Blades andBoards club Thursday, he looked up and saw the puck go by him on apower play to create a 1-1 tie with Boston College.He proceeded through the buffet line, ...

AGAIN, IT'S A TABLE FOR TWO

Feb 01, 1987; ... Tis time for the midseason report, and it reflects a fewsignificant changes since the quarterly examination of Dec. 14.At that time, I had grouped the league to indicate excellentparity at the top. The first tier contained six teams: Atlanta, LosAngeles, Boston, Philadelphia, ...

FREE AGENTS COLLECT 'INTEREST,' BUT NO MONEY

Feb 01, 1987; ... Baseball's Big Eight are still waiting by their telephones. Thephones never ring. Rich Gedman, Lance Parrish, Bob Horner, AndreDawson, Tim Raines, Bob Boone, Ron Guidry and Doyle Alexander arewaiting for offers from major league baseball teams. All eightturned down lucrative offers from ...

GARY WILLIAMS WINS THEM OVER

Feb 01, 1987; ... COLUMBUS, Ohio - St. John Arena, home of the Ohio StateBuckeyes, has been sold out for a week. Both the Purdue and OhioState athletes are on the floor, and the cheerleaders are in place,so who is the crowd waiting for?They are waiting for Gary Williams, the first-year ...

MARVELOUS MALEVOLENCE NOW LEONARD IS THE TARGET OF HAGLER'S HABITUAL HATRED

Feb 01, 1987; ... PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Those who know Marvelous MarvinHagler best describe an enigma -- a man of unpredictable andfast-changing moods. But to his fans who know him as middleweightchampion, Hagler is as constant as the planets.He can be counted on to (1) kiss babies, (2) be ...

SAFETY CONCERNS MOUNT AFTER ATTACKS ON WOMEN

Feb 01, 1987; ... The stabbings of four women in Quincy and Milton during thepast month have sparked more than passing concern about personalsafety by women in those and surrounding communities.Quincy and Milton police have reported a marked increase ofphone calls, personal inquiries, Mace ...

INVESTIGATION INTO FOUR STABBINGS YIELDS NO NEW LEADS OR SUSPECTS

Feb 01, 1987 ... There are no new leads or suspects in the stabbings thatinjured four women over the past month in Quincy and Milton,officials said yesterday.Quincy police Capt. David F. Rowell, head of a task forceinvestigating the case, said "the investigation is continuing andpolice are ...

ESTHER PRUDENTE, 74 BARGAIN CENTER EMPLOYEE

Feb 01, 1987 ... Esther M. (Kavalauskas) Prudente, 74, of Braintree, a formeremployee of the Bargain Center in Quincy, died Friday in QuincyCity Hospital from injuries suffered after she was struck by a carin front of her Quincy Avenue home.Quincy police said their report was unavailable, ...

WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN LOWELL APARTMENT

Feb 01, 1987 ... LOWELL - The death of a 28-year-old woman found Friday byneighbors and a maintenance man in a downtown apartment was underinvestigation yesterday.The identity of the woman was not immediately released. Aspokesman for the Lowell Police Department who declined to givehis ...

ROSSIE N. GREEN, 79 OWNED MEDWAY OIL COMPANY

Feb 01, 1987 ... Rossie N. (Gates) Green, 79, of Medway, owner of P.E. GreenOil Co. in Medway and a former Malden resident, died Friday inMedway.Mrs. Green was born in Tremont, Nova Scotia, graduated fromProvincial Normal College in Nova Scotia and taught high schoolthere before she came ...

MARY DIGREGORIO N.E. TELEPHONE WORKER; AT 70

Feb 01, 1987 ... Mary (Mongelli) DiGregorio, 70, of North Port, Fla., aretired secretary for New England Telephone Co. in Boston, diedWednesday in Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.Born in Boston, Mrs. DiGregorio was raised in Cambridge, whereshe lived for 19 years and attended public ...

RITA M. COPPOLA, 55 NEEDHAM, WALPOLE RESIDENT

Feb 01, 1987 ... Rita M. Coppola, 55, of Walpole, a homemaker, died at homeThursday after a long illness.Born in Needham, Mrs. Coppola was a graduate of Needham HighSchool and lived in Needham for 53 years before moving to Walpolein 1985.She leaves her mother, Lena (Marini) Tocci of ...

JAMES BONNER, FORMER EXECUTIVE OF NEW YORK AD AGENCY; AT 72

Feb 01, 1987 ... James V. Bonner, 72, of the Cummaquid section of Barnstable,a former vice president of Ted Bates Inc., a New York advertisingagency, died Thursday in Cape Cod Hospital after suffering a stroke.Mr. Bonner was born in Boston. He graduated from BostonCollege High School and in ...

SHIRLEY R. BOLES, 65 FORMER GROTON RESIDENT

Feb 01, 1987 ... Shirley R. (Thompson) Boles, 65, a former Groton resident,died Jan. 23 in Mount St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill.,after a brief illness.She was born in Medford, where she attended public schools.Mrs. Boles was a resident of Groton, Mass., before moving ...

ROBERT BETTANO, 26 CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

Feb 01, 1987 ... Robert P. Bettano, 26, of Cambridge, a customer servicerepresentative, died unexpectedly Thursday in Boston City Hospital.Born in Salem, Mr. Bettano attended St. John's parochialschool in Peabody and was a 1978 graduate of Peabody Veteran'sMemorial High School. He received a ...

JANUARY SNOWFALL DOUBLE THE AVERAGE

Feb 01, 1987 ... January in the Boston area turned out to be a wet and snowymonth. The average temperature was 28.9 degrees, .7 degrees belownormal. The month started out on the warm side with the highesttemperature reaching 50 degrees on the 15th. The lowest temperaturewas 8 degrees on ...

DAM MAY DERAIL SALMON PROJECT

Feb 01, 1987; ... CONCORD, N.H. - An 18-year crusade to restore Atlanticsalmon to the Merrimack River may be killed off by a proposedhydroelectric dam at Sewalls Falls, a federal study says.No problem, said developer Rodman Rockefeller: Hire chauffeursfor the fish; pick 'em up and truck ...

LOVE IT, LEAVE IT

Feb 01, 1987; ... BOCA RATON, Fla. - This is like no place in New England,flatter, warmer, and the birds are different. None of us shouldspend the whole winter in Framingham or Portland or East Burke butspend a little money and come to this nice place. There may be acorrelation between the professed love of ...

DARKENED DANCE HALL SNOW SILENCES A 38-YEAR TRADITION

Feb 01, 1987; ... From jazz to be - op, from swing to rock 'n' roll, ManleyGlanville saw it all.For 38 years Glanville owned and ran the Pleasant Lake Casino,a well-known dance hall in Warner, N.H., that crumpled under theweight of last weekend's snow and may not open its doors again.Built ...

GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY PLANTING NEW SEEDS WITH DEMISE OF FARMS

Feb 01, 1987; ... WINDSOR COUNTY, Vermont - He is a farmer, a solid man, long nowin years. He still keeps some beef cows, in a big metal shed behindthe trailer where he and his wife live. It's their third place.They've moved steadily farther away from the village, into thehills. In late ...

AROUND THE BARN UNUSUAL STRUCTURES FADING AWAY

Feb 01, 1987; ... When they were built, they were the state of the art. Roundbarns, at the turn of the century, were cheap to build, efficient,popular among progressive dairy farmers seeking what all farmersseek: Increased productivity without increased labor.Round barns were built mostly in the ...

FISH TALE A PRIZE WINNER RISES TO THE OCCASION

Feb 01, 1987; ... MORGAN, Vt. - Dead fish float. Trucks don't.That's the lesson learned by Vic Gilding of St. Johnsbury whowent ice fishing with Allen Morey on Lake Seymour here recently.Now ice fishing is a sedentary sport whose chief hazards arefrostbite -- induced by bitter winter winds ...

EDUCATION PROPOSAL CHALLENGES NH CONSTITUTION

Feb 01, 1987; ... CONCORD, N.H. - The conflict was inevitable.In November 1984, New Hampshire voters amended the stateConstitution to forbid the state from imposing new or modifiedduties on towns unless the central government paid the bills. That same year, the state Department of ...

BREAK ALTERING FACE OF CHATHAM CHANGES WORRY SOME RESIDENTS

Feb 01, 1987; ... CHATHAM - If a widening breach in North Beach -- a long,thin stretch of sand that protects Chatham Harbor from the fury ofthe Atlantic -- continues to grow, it will precipitate drasticchanges in the harbor and adjacent Pleasant Bay, the likes of whichCape Codders haven't seen in a ...

ASBESTOS SUIT VERDICTS A SETBACK FOR PLAINTIFFS

Feb 01, 1987; ... CAMBRIDGE - Two Middlesex Superior Court juries, actinglittle more than a month apart, have dealt a setback to someplaintiffs in a growing body of asbestos litigation by finding thatthere was no connection between exposure to asbestos and subsequentcancer.The verdicts ...

DIVERS MIGHT SEARCH SEA FOR PROFESSOR

Feb 01, 1987 ... WINTHROP - Police yesterday said their search of theWinthrop shoreline was continuing and that divers may be called into search the ocean bottom in hopes of locating signs of missingHarvard University professor Lawrence Kohlberg.Kohlberg, 59, of Cambridge, a leader in the ...

CONVICT QUESTIONED ON PRYOR CASE

Feb 01, 1987 ... Middlesex County authorities returned from Norfolk, Va.,yesterday where they had questioned a confessed rapist and murdererabout several unsolved cases in Massachusetts, including thedisappearance of 10-year-old Sarah Pryor of Wayland. The Middlesex authorities said, ...

HEATER BLAMED IN HOTEL FIRE

Feb 01, 1987 ... An electric heater, which officials said malfunctioned,started a fire in a room at the Copley Plaza Hotel late yesterdayafternoon, forcing more than 600 guests to evacuate briefly anddelaying a wedding party in the lobby. No injuries were reported.Firefighters extinguished ...

FIRE DAMAGES 1 CINEMA AT CIRCLE THEATER

Feb 01, 1987 ... The Circle Theater complex in Brookline was operatingyesterday with only four of its five theaters after a two-alarmfire damaged the fifth cinema Friday night.The blaze injured three firefighters and forced the evacuationof about 200 patrons, said Brookline Deputy Fire Chief ...

BOSTON WARNED IT FACES FINES IF AMBULANCES AREN'T GARAGED

Feb 01, 1987; ... The way Mayor Flynn sees it, shelter for the homeless andaffordable housing for residents come first. The city ambulanceswill have to wait for their heated quarters."To be honest, I really don't care what the state says. I'mnot interested in what the state says," the mayor ...

AMERICA'S CUP WINNER TO MOVE TO CHARLESTOWN

Feb 01, 1987 ... Charlestown Naval Yard will become the new berth fortwo-time America's Cup winner Courageous, a mayoral spokesman says.The yacht, donated to the city by Leonard Greene, president ofthe syndicate that owns the vessel, would become the centerpiece ofa new sailing center for ...

EVERYONE LOST, INCLUDING PILECKI, IN FIRST SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL

Feb 01, 1987; ... Despite former Westfield State College Francis J. Pilecki'sacquittal last week on the first set of sexual assault chargesagainst him, there are no winners so far.Instead, Pilecki, his alleged victim and his prosecutors haveall been injured, in varying degrees, by the courtroom ...

ROXBURY HOUSING PROJECT DEDICATED OFFICIALS, RESIDENTS CHEER REVITALIZATION

Feb 01, 1987; ... Two years ago, four apartment buildings situated in the shadow ofthe Orange Line's elevated tracks on Columbus Avenue stood vacant,deserted by a developer who went bankrupt. The cinderblockstructures had been vandalized, and "looked like empty garages,"said one resident of the ...

BOSTON CASPER PLANS HEARING ON MBTA BUS SERVICE SAYS PUPILS WERE DROPPED OFF AT WRONG SITES

Feb 01, 1987; ... School Committee member Jo seph W. Casper plans to hold ahearing in two weeks on problems experienced by students who aretransported to school by Mass achusetts Bay Transportation Authority buses.Casper, who represents the L South End-South Boston district,says that since 2,654 ...

CAMBRIDGE POLICE REVIEW MEETINGS TO BEGIN CIVILIAN BOARD, FIRST IN N.E., TO INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE

Feb 01, 1987; ... CAMBRIDGE - The new executive director of this city's civilianpolice review board doesn't even have an office or a secretary yet,but he'll jump right into the middle of things when the board holdsits first meeting Thursday night. The board, the only one of its kind in New England, ...

JET SKIDS OFF RUNWAY AT LOGAN; NO ONE HURT

Feb 01, 1987; ... A jetliner with 66 passengers aboard skidded off a runwayand a cargo plane collided with a snowplow in separate accidents atLogan International Airport early yesterday morning, authoritiessaid. An engine failed on the Continental DC-9 as the airlinerrolled down the ...

POLICE STATISTICS INDICATE BOSTON RACIAL TENSIONS EASED LAST YEAR NUMBER OF CIVIL RIGHTS PROBES FELL TO 157 IN '86 FROM 200 IN '85

Feb 01, 1987; ... If police statistics released yesterday are used as ameasure, Boston's ethnically diverse community is getting alongbetter than it did a year ago, and things are much better than in1978.The city in recent days has heard of Asian youth gangsterrorizing the Chinatown ...

ANXIETY CUTS ACROSS PARTY LINES AS LEGISLATIVE REDISTRICTING HITS SNAG

Feb 01, 1987; ... South Shore Republicans want a new seat. So do theirbrethren on Cape Cod. Boston representatives are worried about whowill be the odd man out. And time is tight. No wonder the men incharge -- Rep. James Brett (D-Boston) and Sen. John Brennan(D-Malden) -- are getting nervous. ...

HIDDEN RECORDERS DIVIDE LEGAL COMMUNITY

Feb 01, 1987; ... For two years, Paul M. Folkins, chief plans examiner inBoston's Inspectional Services Department, started each working dayby being fitted with a hidden recorder.The listening device was taped to his back, usually by FBISpecial Agent James J. Lavin 3d, before Folkins went to ...

BCH CONVERTS WARD TO CARE FOR YOUNGSTERS WITH AIDS

Feb 01, 1987; ... Beginning tomorrow, infants and toddlers who have AIDS andAIDS-related complex but are not acutely ill will have analternative in Boston to staying in a medical ward. A converted ward at Boston City Hospital will be the settingof a round- the-clock, comprehensive care unit ...

JANUARY SNOWFALL NEARED, SURPASSED NEW ENGLAND RECORDS

Feb 01, 1987; ... January 1987 went in the books as a month of record andnear-record snowfall across New England, boosted at the end byFriday's snowstorm and yesterday's scattered flurries.Last month proved the snowiest in history for Worcester, where45.5 inches had fallen through midday ...

SYRIANS ARE SAID TO SUSPEND TERROR ROLE

Feb 01, 1987; ... WASHINGTON - President Hafez Assad of Syria appears to haveordered at least a temporary halt to government-supportedterrorism, a senior US official said yesterday.American and Western officials, he said, are trying to come upwith ways to convince Assad that it is in his ...

US ALMOST GAVE UP IRAN DEAL, PANEL FINDS

Feb 01, 1987; ... WASHINGTON - Several times during its 15 months of secretdeal-making, the White House appeared ready because of distrust anddiscouragement to abandon its initiative of selling arms to Iran,according to the report of the Senate Intelligence Committee.The move could have shut ...

CHINESE HEALTH CARE TAKES GREAT LEAP BACKWARD 'BAREFOOT DOCTORS' GONE; RURAL DISEASES ON RISE

Feb 01, 1987; ... First of two articles.Next: The two traditions in Chinese medicine. BEIJING - China's famous "barefoot doctors," once copied bydeveloping countries around the world as providers of basic healthcare for the rural poor, are no more. Driven by the chance to ...

NO IOWA DEMOCRATS IN SAMPLING RECOGNIZED PICTURE OF DUKAKIS

Feb 01, 1987; ... DES MOINES - In Iowa, where presidential candidates are ascommon as cows, Gov. Dukakis probably could walk down Locust Streetto the Capitol building and no one would recognize him. A picture of Dukakis was shown to a dozen Democrats in DesMoines, the state's largest city, ...