The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 1988:
GOP STEPS UP ITS PRESSURE ON MEESE
Apr 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - Republicans stepped up their pressureyesterday on Attorney General Edwin S. Meese 3d to resign, as oneof the party's most conservative senators told him that many inCongress have "deep concern" about his troubles.After that meeting, the senator, Strom Thurmond ...
A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MANY COLORS
Apr 01, 1988; ... JOHANNESBURG - From the window of his high-rise apartment in thecity's Hillbrow section, Benjie Khumalo, 32, commands a fine viewof Johannesburg, from the glass business blocks and luxury hotelsof downtown to the enormous gold mine slag heaps beyond."I can almost feel it is my ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1988 ... Q. Why don't television stations advertise each other'sspecial programs? -- T.Q., Portsmouth, N ....
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1988 ... Q. Whatever became of Peter Reilly, the 19-year-old man fromCanaan, Conn., who was acquitted of the 1973 murder of hisstepmother, Barbara Gibbons, after playwright Arthur Millerdemanded a closer look at the evidence? -- E.G., LexingtonA ....
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1988 ... Q. How is the "wind-chill factor" bandied about bytelevision weather forecasters calculated? -- N.G., MiltonA. The Globe's consulting climatologist, Robert Lautzenheiser,says the formula for determining the wind-chill factor -- an indexof how quickly exposed skin will freeze ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1988 ... Q. Is there a name for the indentation in the bottom of achampagne bottle? -- C.P., Beverly FarmsA. That is known variously as a kick or punt, according to"What's What." The book, subtitled "a ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1988 ... Q. Are photocopiers hazardous to human health? -- A.R.,RandolphA. A private worker-safety group, the Massachusetts Coalitionfor Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH), has made severalrecommendations for the use of photocopiers. Among them: Themachines should be used ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Apr 01, 1988 ... Q. How far away should a viewer sit from a color televisionset to be safe from radiation? -- K.M., NorfolkA. Radiation from color TV sets has not been considered ahealth problem since 1968, when Congress passed a law regulatingsuch emissions. Before Congress acted, the US ...
DUKAKIS HONES NEW EDGE TO IMAGE
Apr 01, 1988; ... MILWAUKEE - A sharper and more aggressive Gov. Dukakis emergedlast night through a speech designed to define his candidacy forthe Democratic presidential nomination.The major speech, with language and message more focused thanin the past, spells out where he intends to take the ...
THATCHER CRITICIZES IRA-DEATHS INQUIRY
Apr 01, 1988; ... LONDON - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher angrilycriticized Amnesty International yesterday for requesting detailsof what it called a possible "extrajudicial execution" by themilitary of three unarmed Irish Republican Army members last month. She called the ...
FAILING SIMON FOLLOWS A MOTTO: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
Apr 01, 1988; ... WAUSAU, Wis. - Somehow, Sen. Paul Simon is maintaining his senseof humor and equanimity even as he watches his presidentialambitions -- which have consumed the last year of his life --wither away.The event he scheduled Wednesday for the Wausau media marketwas a metaphor for ...
JACKSON STUMPS WISCONSIN, LOOKING TO BROADEN AND CEMENT HIS SUPPORT
Apr 01, 1988; ... MILWAUKEE - Rev. Jesse L. Jackson blitzed through Wisconsinyesterday, attempting to use his populist message to build acoalition of labor, students and farmers that he hopes will carryhim to a victory in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary. Running a close second to Gov ....
STUDY SAYS AIDS VIRUS INCREASES IN VIRULENCE
Apr 01, 1988; ... As people infected with the AIDS virus become progressivelysicker, they harbor strains of the virus that are progressivelymore virulent, a San Francisco research team reported today.The finding provides a new clue as to why infected peopleexperience a long latency period and ...
US MOVES TO HALT COMPANIES FROM PAYING CASH TO NORIEGA
Apr 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration and Congress movedin concert yesterday to stop US companies from making cash paymentsfor taxes and services to the government of Gen. Manuel AntonioNoriega, Panama's military ruler.Administration officials met throughout the afternoon ...
SLOW GAINS IN AFRICA FOR AIDS BLOOD TESTS
Apr 01, 1988; ... In the past year alone, about 2,000 Zairian patients werespared infection with the deadly AIDS virus thanks to a 5-minuteAIDS antibody test used to screen blood for transfusions, a leadingUS AIDS researcher said Wednesday. Dr. Thomas Quinn, senior investigator at the ...
KEY AIDE TO MEESE UNSURE OF HIS FUTURE
Apr 01, 1988; ... WASHINGTON - When two of the Justice Department's topofficials resigned on Tuesday to protest the continued tenure ofAttorney General Edwin S. Meese 3d, they expected that the JusticeDepartment's prestigious solicitor general would follow suit beforethe end of the week.A ...
CANADIAN CABINET CHANGES ANNOUNCED
Apr 01, 1988; ... TORONTO - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced a majorCabinet shuffle yesterday. The most important change was the postof minister for international trade, with Transport ...
ERROR, PREMATURE PUBLICITY ADD UP TO EMBARRASSMENT IN MATH WORLD
Apr 01, 1988; ... History's most famous unsolved math problem has almostsurely thwarted yet another assault, experts said Wednesday,leaving a Japanese mathematician going down to apparent defeat andmathematicians embarrassed about the whole episode."I think very much that it's wrong," Gerd ...
TRAWLER OWNER FREE ON BAIL IN MARIJUANA BRIBERY CASE
Apr 01, 1988; ... A Boston Harbor fisherman, Gordon Sweetman of Avon, is freeafter posting $10,000 bail in a case involving an alleged attemptto bribe a guard during the unloading of marijuana at aMassachusetts Port Authority pier in March 1983.Sweetman, a trawler owner who is a familiar ...
CORRECTION
Apr 01, 1988 ... Omission: A story in some editions of yesterday's Globe about aspeech by Gov. Dukakis contained an incomplete sentence concerningwhether Dukakis would rehire his former campaign manager, JohnSasso. The complete sentence should have read: In an interviewearlier this week, ...
HEALTH AMENDMENT MIGHT DENY CARE FOR SOME MASS. PATIENTS
Apr 01, 1988; ... A little-noticed provision in Gov. Dukakis' health care billwould allow nursing homes for disabled children and young adults toaccept higher-paying patients from out of state -- at a time whenMassachusetts patients are competing for a limited number of beds.The provision ...
233 CHARGED IN DRUG RING FBI SAYS BUST IS LARGEST EVER
Apr 01, 1988; ... In what the FBI described as the largest drug bust inhistory, at least 233 persons, including a reputed organized crimefigure from Revere, have been charged with participating in aSicilian drug ring that allegedly shipped cocaine from the UnitedStates to Italy and exchanged it for ...
COUNCIL LISTENS TO PLIGHT OF IMMIGRANTS
Apr 01, 1988; ... John is a 25-year-old college-educated engineer whoemigrated from depressed Ireland to Boston three years ago to workin construction. He is a loser under the US Immigration Reform andControl Act of 1986.Gerardo, also 25, came from Venezuela eight years ago to jointhe rest ...
EAST BOSTON HOPES RAISED FOR REFLOATING REGINA MARIS BUT SOME FEAR THE TALL SHIP WON'T SURVIVE THE OPERATION
Apr 01, 1988; ... An attempt may be made today or Saturday to lift and refloat thehistoric barkentine Regina Maris from 33 feet of muddy water offthe Cashman Marine Co. docks at the old Bethlehem Shipyard in EastBoston.But some salvage experts and vintage-ship lovers haveexpressed concern that the ...
THE PEACE CORPS -- STILL LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD IDEALISTS
Apr 01, 1988; ... Bill Strack was about to start another Peace Corpsrecruiting session here recently when he was moved to reflect onthe change a decade can make. For scattered among the crowd wereseveral potential recruits sporting suits and ties with briefcasesin their hands."When I ...
VETERANS PICKET TO PROTEST ELEVATOR BREAKDOWNS OFFICIAL ADMITS PROBLEMS, SAYS LONG-RANGE PLANS WILL MOVE SERVICES FROM AGING VA BUILDING ON COURT STREET
Apr 01, 1988 ... About 30 ex-prisoners of war picketed outside the VeteransAdministration building on Court Street yesterday morning toprotest the frequent breakdown of the nine-story building's fourelevators.Edward Bolden, an administrative assistant, said VA directorRichard Nohe met with the ...
I WAS JUST THINKING . . .
Apr 01, 1988; ... Not that it really matters, but . . .Whenever he travels, Michael Dukakis has to check his eyebrowsas extra luggage, Paul Simon his earlobes, George Bush his ego.I can't wait until warm weather, when Mike Barnicle wears hisshorts into the office. He's got the best gams in ...
DUKAKIS APPOINTS DPU COMMISSIONER
Apr 01, 1988; ... Susan Tierney, executive director of the MassachusettsEnergy Facilities Siting Council, was appointed commissioner of theDepartment of Public Utilities yesterday by Gov. Dukakis.Tierney, a graduate of Scripps University, ...
LEGISLATURE OK'S REDISTRICTING BILL CHANGES MADE IN HOUSE VERSION OF PLAN TO SATISFY MINORITIES
Apr 01, 1988; ... The house redistricting plan, with concessions made to easeminority concerns in Boston., yesterday and was expected to besigned into law shortly by Lt. Gov. Evelyn ,Murphy. State officials said election papers could become available asearly as today after a hearing in federal ...
BRA DIRECTOR OPTIMISTIC ON ARENA
Apr 01, 1988; ... Despite Mayor Flynn's strong criticism of a North Stationland-taking, a top Boston official said last night that the citywill be able to proceed with construction of a new arena if Gov.Dukakis issues a statement directing the Massachusetts BayTransportation Authority to follow ...
WHEATON COLLEGE, PRIMED TO GO CO-ED, SAYS APPLICANT POOL ROSE 35%
Apr 01, 1988; ... NORTON - Wheaton College, which will admit men next fallfor the first time in its 153-year history, will send outacceptances today to prospective students from a pool of applicants35 percent larger than last year's.The college said yesterday that about 18 percent of ...
CRITICS SAY 'PORK' AMENDMENTS PRIME FOR CUTS DUKAKIS RISKS ALIENATING POLITICAL LEADERS IF SECTIONS DELETED FROM TRANSPORTATION BILL
Apr 01, 1988; ... The $3.1 billion transportation bond bill offers some thornyissues for Gov. Dukakis as he sorts through the complicateddocument and considers several sections that critics say arenothing but "pork" for the politically well-connected.The Legislature, which plunked the massive ...
HOUSES SLOWLY LOSING THEIR EDGE ON CHATHAM'S NORTH BEACH HOMEOWNERS WAIT FOR COURT RULING ON OCEAN BARRIER
Apr 01, 1988; ... CHATHAM - On North Beach, where the ocean claimed one housein January, a bulldozer has put final touches on a protectivesandbank locked in place by massive boulders."That's temporary protection so the other houses don't fallinto the water," said Jay Monaghan, project ...
SJC TO HEAR CASE ON CHARLES RIVER PARK
Apr 01, 1988 ... The state Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to heararguments Tuesday in the dispute between the Boston RedevelopmentAuthority and developer Jerome Rappaport over the conversion ofapartments at Charles River Park into condominiums. Rappaport petitioned the SJC for a hearing ...
PLAN OFFERED TO COMBAT AIDS AMONG DRUG USERS
Apr 01, 1988; ... A Boston city councilor yesterday proposed a plan to fightAIDS among intravenous drug users that he said could be implementedimmediately and would cost about $3.5 million annually.The proposal by Councilor Thomas M. Menino (HydePark-Roslindale) would combine education and ...
NUCCI SAYS SCHOOL COMMITTEE MUST BEGIN CUTTING BUDGET
Apr 01, 1988; ... Boston School Committee president John A. Nucci yesterdaysaid the panel must begin next week to reduce its proposed $368.2million budget for the next fiscal year, saying it has become clearthe figure is too high.Nucci said Superintendent Laval S. Wilson and other ...
US MAGISTRATE CONSIDERS NEXT STEP IN COCAINE CASE RELEASE CONSIDERED FOR FOUR OF 25 CHARGED
Apr 01, 1988; ... A federal magistrate yesterday continued a detention hearinguntil today on whether to release four defendants kept in custodysince their arrest last week in connection with the allegedoperation of a $2.4 million cocaine distribution organization basedin the Merrimack Valley and New ...
REPORTERS SAY STORY DOMINATED THEIR LIVES
Apr 01, 1988; ... LAWRENCE - The sound of champagne corks thudding againstthe newsroom ceiling yesterday signaled the first-ever PulitzerPrize for the Eagle-Tribune and reporters Susan Forrest and BarbaraWalsh.The afternoon daily and its two reporters earned journalism'smost prestigious ...
LOCAL WINNERS EXPRESS ELATION OVER HONORS
Apr 01, 1988; ...report. Two of this year's Pulitzer prizes for letters went to localauthors. One went to a soon-to-be-local author. One may havesettled the biggest literary controversy in years.Harvard historian David Donald won his second Pulitzer Prizefor biography for "Look ...
IN MANY WAYS, SUFFOLK WAS WORTH SAVING
Apr 01, 1988; ... There she was, on the 11 p.m. news. She stood, fresh-faced andearnest, an advocate for day care, trying to get the state to dosomething for the tots.Then she uttered the now famous line: "If they can give $10million to Suffolk Downs then they can do something for us."It ...
MAN IN MOTION
Apr 01, 1988; ... Dallas Cowboys running back Herschel Walker will exchange hiscleats for ballet slippers next week, when he will perform with theFort Worth Ballet."It's the hardest thing I've ever done," Walker ...
SAY THAT AGAIN?
Apr 01, 1988; ... The recent achievements of rookie righthander Steve Ellsworth,and his bid to make the Red Sox, reminded Sherm Feller of the dayin 1969 that Boston traded Dick Ellsworth, Steve's father, to theCleveland Indians.In return, the Sox received catcher Joe Azcue and pitchersSonny ...
SOX DON'T DECK THE HALL 22 PLAYERS ARE IN, BUT ONLY FIVE WHO PLAYED A LONG TIME IN BOSTON
Apr 01, 1988; ... Carl Yastrzemski will be the 23d player to enter the Hall of Fameafter spending some time in a Red Sox uniform.However, Yaz will be only the sixth player enshrined whoplayed more than 1,000 games for Boston.Ted Williams, the greatest Red Sox player of all, spent hisentire ...
NOT MUCH CALL FOR VOICE VOTE
Apr 01, 1988; ... Baseball has been on radio for 65 years and on television for 40years, and in that time innumerable broadcasters have become quiterich and famous while describing the game.Yet announcers never have cast ballots for Hall of Famecandidates, while former sportswriters are eligible to ...
POSSIBLE FUTURE FAMERS
Apr 01, 1988; ... They are under 30 and in the pole position in the race for Hallof Fame status. But that doesn't mean it is a lock.Consider Tony Conigliaro. He was 22 and already hit 109 homeruns -- the youngest player ever to hit 100 homers -- when JackHamilton's fastball shattered his dream. A ...
STARS WHOSE SHINE IS FADING THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE IMPACT OF A RUTH, BUT THEY HAVE HALL PLAQUES
Apr 01, 1988; ... They are the heroes of foggy yesterdays. They are gone andforgotten, except by those who cherish the past and search yellowednewspaper clippings or library microfilm in search of it.Travis Jackson said it best after his selection to the Hall ofFame: "The longer you're out, the more ...
HE'LL COUNT ON NUMBERS SOME ARE DOWN ON RICE, BUT STATISTICS PROBABLY WILL LIFT HIM INTO HALL
Apr 01, 1988; ... Jim Rice has made a nice living bashing baseballs. Now everybodybashes Jim Rice.Rice Bashing is the rage in this spring of 1988. Coming offthe only poor season of his career (.277, 13 HRs, 62 RBIs), Rice isthe target of impatient observers who'd like to put him out topasture to ...
SOME FALL SHORT EACH TIME AROUND DUROCHER, RIZZUTO, MARIS JUST A FEW OF THE PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT SO FAR
Apr 01, 1988; ... Every year we hear cries and whispers for the benefit of thosewho aren't in baseball's Hall of Fame. The individuals listed belowhave strong lobbies but weak voting blocs:- Leo Durocher -- Born in West Springfield, "The Lip" managed24 seasons, won 3,740 games and made it to the ...
THE MOST BALLYHOOED OF BALLOTS
Apr 01, 1988; ... In this country, it might be the most passionate of elections.Presidential campaigns come every four years and inspiresaturation coverage, but they often are dull and forgettable. Canyou name Barry Goldwater's running mate in '64?There's groaning and small-mindedness after ...
THEIR BLANKS SHUT OUT BUNNING NINE VOTERS DIDN'T CHECK ANY BOXES ON THEIR HALL OF FAME BALLOTS LAST YEAR. IF THEY HAD NOT SUBMITTED THOSE BALLOTS, JIM BUNNING WOULD HAVE MADE IT.
Apr 01, 1988; ... A Philadelphia columnist called them the "Nine Clods."Congressman Jim Bunning probably has some other choice names forthe nine Hall of Fame voters who turned in blank ballots lastwinter.It has been said that the nine empty ballots cost Bunningadmission in his final year of ...
THEY LOOK GOOD, BUT HOW WILL THEY PLAY? RED SOX BEGIN THE SEASON AMID GREAT EXPECTATION -- AND HOPE IT WON'T END WITH GRAVE DISAPPOINTMENT W
Apr 01, 1988; ... INTER HAVEN, Fla. - There are no Don Mattinglys, Joe Namaths orCharles Barkleys in the Red Sox clubhouse. Not a single player iswilling to "guarantee" a division title for 1988."We don't need to brag and boast," says catcher Rich Gedman."On paper, everybody looks good. But you've ...
NOW IT'S STARGELL'S TIME FOR INDUCTION
Apr 01, 1988; ... He will stand alone. Willie Stargell is the 200th player selectedfor induction into Baseball's Hall of Fame, and he'll be the onlyplayer enshrined when the game's gods gather in Cooperstown July 31.Stargell hasn't started working on his acceptance speech butpromises, "It'll come ...
IS OLDER WISER? NOT NECESSARILY VETERANS COMMITTEE HAS ITS FLAWS, TOO
Apr 01, 1988; ... Voting done by the Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee generates asmuch argument and emotion as that conducted by the Baseball Writersof America.The Veterans Committee was established in the late 1930s forthe benefit of players who toiled before the first induction in1936. It was ...
SPENCER DISPLAYS A LOVE OF THE GAME
Apr 01, 1988; ... COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - His real name is William Spencer. But don'tbelieve that. His parents never did.No, from the time he was big enough to pose for a familyalbum, he was Ted Spencer. To be born a lefthander around Boston inthe '40s, and to have a father who loved baseball, was to ...
HIS CHECK-IN TIME IS A YEAR AWAY ELECTION YEAR IS 1989 FOR YASTRZEMSKI, AND HE'S A STRONG CANDIDATE FOR IMMEDIATE ENTRY TO HALL
Apr 01, 1988; ... Baseball Heaven has a five-year purgatory. You can hit morehomers than Hank Aaron or compile a lifetime batting average of.400, but you can't get a plaque in Cooperstown until five seasonsafter you play in your last game.And so Boston fans once again must wait 'til next ...
OBJECTS D'BALLPARK OF BATS, BALLS AND BEYOND
Apr 01, 1988; ... COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Robert Redford is in the Hall of Fame.Naturally. Bet you didn't know that.In fact, it isn't Redford, but his baseball bats, that are inthe Hall of Fame. The "Wonderboy" and "Savoy Special" that Redfordwielded to fame in the movie "The Natural" are among the ...
WHERE BASEBALL ALL BEGAN (PROBABLY) BECAUSE HISTORIANS SAID BASEBALL'S ROOTS WERE PLANTED IN THE GREEN GRASS OF COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., WHEN ABNER DOUBLEDAY (RIGHT) INVENTED TOWN BALL (ALTHOUGH SOME SKEPTICS HAVE ARGUED THE POINT), A SPECIAL COMMISSION PUT IN MOTION THE HALL OF FAME MUSEUM THERE.
Apr 01, 1988; ... COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - The best way to get here is to hit in the.300s, belt 300-400 homers, or string together a few 20-win seasonsand 250 career victories. Failing that, if you're from Boston and can't hit like Maysor pitch like Koufax, it's only a little more than a ...
BOOSTERS GIVE THEM A SHOT SOME PLAYERS STILL HAVE ROOTING SECTIONS EVEN AFTER THEY'VE RETIRED
Apr 01, 1988; ... When Bob Lemon was on the ballot, unbeknownst to him, a fanmailed flyers and lemons to voters to get them to elevate theformer Cleveland Indians pitcher into the Hall of Fame. It worked.Orlando Cepeda boosters sent out slick brochures to members ofthe Baseball Writers Association ...
LONGEVITY AS MORE AND MORE PLAYERS STRETCH OUT THEIR CAREERS, THEIR CHANCES OF REACHING HALL OF FAME NUMBERS -- AND INDUCTION STATUS -- MULTIPLY
Apr 01, 1988; ... Is Don Sutton a Hall of Famer? If he ever retires, baseballwriters will be faced with this troublesome question.Sutton is a living, pitching monument to baseball's newlongevity. Like the dinner guests who will not leave, Sutton justkeeps hanging around. And his numbers keep piling ...
THE HALL: FAMOUS AND CONTROVERSIAL FOR BASEBALL PLAYERS, THE HALL OF FAME IS, AS RED SOX PITCHER ROGER CLEMENS SO SUCCINCTLY PUTS IT, ''WHERE YOU GO FOREVER.'' FOR 50 YEARS NOW, IN A LITTLE HAMLET IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, BASEBALL'S GREATS HAVE BEEN IMMORTALIZED. AND FOR JUST AS LONG, THERE HAVE BEEN HEATED DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHO SHOULD BE IN, WHO SHOULD BE OUT, HOW THE VOTING SHOULD BE DONE AND WHO SHOULD DO IT.
Apr 01, 1988; ... America loves awards. You start competing for recognition whenyour mom submits your photo to the local newspaper's Beautiful BabyContest. Seven-year-old soccer players get trophies for intramuralplay. Girl Scouts compete to sell the most boxes of thin mints.High school seniors vie for the ...
HE'S THE NEWSMAN LANG TABULATES, TELLS PLAYERS THEY'VE BEEN ELECTED
Apr 01, 1988; ... Jack Lang is a .969 hitter (31 for 32). In his 22 years as secretary-treasurer of the Baseball WritersAssociation of America, Lang has failed only once to find his man,get him on the phone, and say, "Congratulations, you've beenelected to the Hall of Fame." Not that Lang didn't ...
VICTORY TOUR MEANT DEFEAT TO CHUCK SULLIVAN
Apr 01, 1988; ... Five years ago, he was a star. A top gun. Everything hetouched seemed to become a winner. Chuck Sullivan was somebody."I didn't know what it was to lose," Chuck Sullivan saidyesterday after people charged he brought down the Sullivan dynastyin Foxborough, resulting in the ...
CULLINANE IS BACK IN CHARGE HIS MISSION: MAKE CULLINET PROFITABLE
Apr 01, 1988; ... John J. Cullinane yesterday returned as chairman and chiefexecutive officer of Cullinet Software Inc., the strugglingsoftware-industry pioneer he founded 19 years ago.The change signals the start of a broad review of operationsthat could lead to a restructuring, a company ...
MATINA PHILLIPS TO FIGHT SUIT
Apr 01, 1988; ... Millionnaire heiress Matina Phillips has returned to Bostonfrom self-imposed exile in California to confront a lawsuit filedagainst her by Acton Corp., a publicly held cable televisioncompany that her husband ran from 1975 until his death in late1985.The suit charges that ...
CAMPEAU, MACY RAISE THE ANTE; TALKS RESUME
Apr 01, 1988; ... Like two punch-drunk fighters in the 15th round, Robert Campeauand Edward Finkelstein were still on their feet yesterday in thebattle to take over Federated Department Stores. The bout resumesat 8 o'clock this morning.Although Federated's directors had fixed Wednesday for a ...