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May 01, 1988 ... Caption: Globe staff map by Deborah ...

WORKING OUT / ATHLETES THEIR GOAL IS TO STAY IN SHAPE

May 01, 1988; ... They are remembered as young men. Athletically talented.Physically dominant. You can still see them in your mind's eye. Bobby Orr flying through the air for the Bruins. JohnHavlicek stealing the ball in his green-and-white Celtic uniform.Mike Andrews turning the pivot on a ...

EXERCISE'S POINT MAN

May 01, 1988; ... Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger's name is not exactly a household word.Among those millions of Americans out there pounding the pavementor otherwise aerobically occupied, few realize how much their faithin exercise rests on a foundation built by this outwardly serene,inwardly driven ...

THE FRUITS OF EXERCISE THERE ARE MANY MEDICAL BENEFITS TO JOGGING, SWIMMING AND BICYCLING

May 01, 1988; ... If you do them right, jogging, swimming, bicyling and othervigorous exercise can be better for you than you may think. But ifyou do them wrong, they can kill you, doctors warn.Heart disease offers the best example. Exercise cuts the riskof heart attacks and other cardiovascular ...

MENTAL HEALTH OVERCOMING EMOTIONAL STRESS

May 01, 1988; ... She was 48, a successful mother, wife and community volunteer.Then her mother died of cancer. The same year, her only daughterleft for college and she had a hysterectomy. She became severelydepressed and lost all interest in her volunteer work, hermarriage, even her appearance. Her husband ...

NUTRITION FATS ARE THE CULPRITS

May 01, 1988; ... Ten years ago, as a present to herself on her 45th birthday, LoisLindauer, founder of Diet Workshop, Inc., sent her 10 favoritefoods to a private laboratory to be analyzed for their caloriecount. Included were the open-face tuna sandwich she ate for lunchevery day at her local coffee shop; ...

OVER 40 SWEATING TO BEAT THE RAP

May 01, 1988; ... As an unsuccessful jogger during the 1970s, I viewed the comingof the active '80s with deep suspicion. My two forays into running,each lasting several months, had left me without the feelings ofgood health that I had been promised by the gurus of fitness.Mostly I just felt bushed. Further, ...

THE WORLD OF AEROBICS A GREAT WAY TO EXERCISE, BUT CHECK THE PROGRAM FIRST

May 01, 1988; ... Paula Besson of Newton started teaching aerobics in the dark agesof the sport. Well, 11 years ago, anyway."They called it slimnastics then, but it was similar to whatwe do now," she recalls, noting that fancy leotards and Spandextights were not in vogue then. "We just sort of ...

AT DEATH'S DOOR TOP MEDICAL EXAMINER WAGES SURVIVAL STRUGGLE $100,000 WILL HELP UPGRADE OFFICE

May 01, 1988; ... CONCORD - Before the 1988 Legislature recently gave him a break,Dr. Roger M. Fossum said the pressures of his 20 months as thestate's first chief medical examiner were "beating me to death." Hesaid attempts to relieve the stress had been "totally murdered,"and that his life was haunted by ...

CORRECTION

May 01, 1988 ... Omission: Because of a reporter's error, a review of "NewHampshire Illustrators" in the April 24 edition of NH Weekly failedto report that the exhibit may be seen daily at the New HampshireHistorical Society, 30 Park ...

CORRECTION

May 01, 1988 ... Correction: Because of an editing error in a story on day care inNew Hampshire in the April 24 edition of NH Weekly, state Rep. MaryJane Wallner's ...

CORRECTION

May 01, 1988 ... Correction: Because of a photographer's error, Douglas Cowie,chairman of the town of Brentwood's Board of Selectmen, wasincorrectly identified in a picture ...

CORRECTION

May 01, 1988 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, Fairgrounds ElementarySchool in Nashua was omitted from the list of schools receiving ...

N.H. SAFETY GROUP ISSUES YARD TIPS

May 01, 1988 ... CONCORD - Last year, more than 59.5 million American householdsmaintained their lawns and gardens with the aid of lawn mowers,garden tractors and tillers, according to a Gallup poll.And last year, the New Hampshire Safety Council reported thatmore than 170,000 people were injured ...

N.H. TO CELEBRATE CONSTITUTIONAL ANNIVERSARY

May 01, 1988 ... CONCORD - New Hampshire residents will celebrate the state'srole in the ratification of the US Constitution on June 21, the200th anniversary of the day New Hampshire became the decidingstate to ratify the Constitution."We are proud to announce," said Gov. John H. Sununu, ...

'ALL-TIME HIGH' COST FOR AN EDUCATION APPARENTLY DETERS FEW APPLICATIONS UP AT THREE STATE COLLEGES

May 01, 1988; ... The three schools of the University System of New Hampshire areamong of the most expensive public higher education institutions inthe country, but the high price of tuition is not scaring awayapplicants.Applications for admission to the University of New Hampshirein Durham, Keene ...

DEMOCRATS MAKE CHOICES

May 01, 1988; ... The Democrats have finally finished picking delegates to theirJuly convention in Atlanta. The two at-large delegates for IllinoisSen. Paul Simon are Hillsborough County Commissioner WilliamMarcoux Jr. and Marilyn Monahan, president of the New Hampshirechapter of the National Education ...

THE TOP MONEY MAKERS

May 01, 1988; ... And now, for the big money makers during the 1988 legislativesession, among the lobbyists that is. Records in the secretary ofstate's office show that former House speaker George Roberts farout distanced the pack with $80,501 in fees, including $10,000 fromthe National Taxpayers Union, ...

2D DISTRICT SHAPES UP

May 01, 1988; ... House Minority Leader Mary Chambers (D-Etna) offered thefollowing analysis of the 2d Congressional District race at adinner in her honor last week in West Lebanon. It goes like this:Rep. Judd Gregg has ordered a new set of plaid shirts fromL.L. Bean (translation: He's quitting ...

ROOMS WITH A VIEW

May 01, 1988; ... The state Republican Party has received the big payoff fordelivering New Hampshire to Vice President George Bush in lastFebruary's presidential primary. The New Hampshire delegates to theAugust national convention in New Orleans have won coveted rooms inthe Marriott Hotel, which is where ...

BOYER IS ELECTED AS COLLEGE TRUSTEE

May 01, 1988 ... NASHUA - Former Sen. Richard E. Boyer has been elected to theDaniel Webster College Board of Trustees, a position he held from1981 until last year.Boyer, an attorney in Boca Raton, Fla., is currently generalcounsel and consultant to Ocean Properties Ltd., in Boca Raton.He ...

UNIVERSAL VERSE CONCORD POET WINS READERS' CHOICE AWARD SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE HONORS JANE HUNT FOR 'THE FAMOUS HOSPITALITY OF DAO'I'

May 01, 1988; ... CONCORD - Jane Hunt has received a sign that somebody out thereis reading what she has to say.The 43-year-old writer/poet from Concord has won the secondannual Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine readers' choiceaward for best poet. She was honored for her poem entitled ...

TOWNS' VOTERS TO FINALIZE FORMATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT

May 01, 1988 ... MILFORD - Voters from Milford, Mont Vernon and Amherst willgather Saturday to take the final steps in forming a newcooperative school district. First an interim moderator to preside over the day's meetingwill be selected, then balloting to fill the nine-member schoolboard ...

SIGN OF THE TIMES

May 01, 1988 ... 225 YEARS New Boston strives to maintain small-town flavor despite change Anniversary helps revitalize town's sense of community NEW BOSTON - There's a comfortable thread of continuity in NewBoston. Dodge's general store sits on the dogleg turn of Route 13in the center of town, ...

PROGRAM ALLOWS DISPOSAL OF TOXIC HOUSEHOLD WASTES

May 01, 1988 ...For more information, call the New Hampshire Poison Control center, 1-800-562-8236; New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, 1-800-852-3345, ext. 2902; or the Rockingham County Planning Commission, 778-0885. The fourth annual Rockingham ...

COLLECTION SITES IN NASHUA AREA

May 01, 1988 ... NASHUA - The Nashua Regional Planning Commission has coordinateda program for the collection of unwanted household toxic materials,such as pesticides, cleaners, oil- and lead- based paint products,hobby supplies, polishes and pharmaceuticals. The third annual Household Hazardous ...

BALLROOM DANCERS TURN BACK THE CLOCK

May 01, 1988; ...Rockingham Ballroom -- Ash Swamp Road, off Route 108, Newmarket. Saturdays, 8 p.m. $7.50. Reservations suggested. Telephone 659-2886. Every Saturday night they turn back the clock in the RockinghamBallroom, turn up the music and glide across the dance floor as ...

ASK THE GLOBE

May 01, 1988 ... Q. The great American victory over the British in 1777 tookplace near Stillwater, New York. Why then is it referred to as theBattle of Saratoga? H.G., Hanson A. Paul Okey, historian at the Saratoga National Historical Park,admits that the battle, one of the most decisive of ...

ASK THE GLOBE

May 01, 1988 ... Q. When was the last performance at Boston's Old Howard, theburlesque house in Scollay Square? J.M., San Jose, California A. The Old Howard itself made a fiery exit from the Boston scenein 1961, when it burned nearly to the ground. However, the stripjoint had been empty since ...

ASK THE GLOBE

May 01, 1988 ... Q. What is folk singer Bob Dylan's real name? R.A., Boston A. Inspired by one of his television heroes, US Marshal MattDillon of Gunsmoke, Robert Zimmerman adopted the name Bob Dillonsome 18 years after his birth, in 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota. At21, after he became familiar ...

ASK THE GLOBE

May 01, 1988 ... Q. My granddaughter's teacher and I disagree over theteacher's definition of Latin America, which includes practicallyevery country south of the Rio Grande. What do authoritativesources, such as gazeteers and encyclopedias, generally tend toencompass by the term? M.W., ...

LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE WE ALL NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO US

May 01, 1988 ... No relationship can thrive if people can't talk about whatmatters to them. Various things get in the way. Fears of beingmisunderstood, of hurting feelings, of revealing oneself, or ofbeing laughed at can create roadblocks to communication. Butkeeping silent may be worse: Shutting people out ...

SAME DISH NEXT YEAR

May 01, 1988; ... When it comes to assessing restaurants, the matter of consistencyis by far the most fragile and complex variable. Can the kitchen doit every night, every meal? Can the performance at lunch match thelevel at which the kitchen executes the dinner menu? Can thequality be very carefully ...

FAMILY TIES KARATE. A TRIP TO THE ZOO. MAKING MOVIES. IS THIS THERAPY? THE FAMILY CENTER IN SOMERVILLE THINKS SO.

May 01, 1988; ...CHRISTINA ROBB IS A STAFF WRITER FOR THE GLOBE MAGAZINE. In the beginning, the Family Center was one social worker, AnnePeretz, sitting in a bedroom closet with a little boy. Nearly a decade before, Peretz had come away from the antiwarpicket lines and worked in the Roxbury ...

SERVES YOU RIGHT A SENSE OF PROPORTION AT MEALTIME

May 01, 1988; ...The recipe for spring vegetables with poached chicken breasts is adapted from The Natural Cuisine of Georges Blanc, copyright by Georges Blanc. Used by permission of Tabori & Chang, Inc., New York. Food that is good for you doesn't have to be ...

PLAYING THE NUMBERS

May 01, 1988; ... Sex talk, rock gossip, soap operas, betting tips, vital questions-- the new telephone marketplace has it allI was alone in the house. I was alone with the phone. Bored. Idecided to call Belinda Carlisle. I never had talked to a formerGo-Go."Hello, Belinda . . . ," I ...

REPORTS FROM THE KILLING GROUNDS ''WHO KILLED THEM?'' ''MEN WITH GUNS,'' THE VILLAGER SAID ''YES, BUT WHAT MEN? ARMY SOLDIERS? REBELS?'' ''MEN WITH GUNS,'' HE REPLIED

May 01, 1988; ... CORRESPONDENT, HAS WORKED EXTENSIVELY IN AFRICA. Outside the bullet-pocked Catholic church a dozen little girlswere playing zero-zero -- the African version of patty-cake --clapping their hands in a complicated pattern while chanting arhyme. I paused to watch, hunkering on my ...

ALOHA, MAGNUM

May 01, 1988; ... Would you rather watch the richest man in the world or one of thesexiest?Viewers will be facing that choice tonight when they decidewhether to watch "The Richest Man in the World: The Story ofAristotle Onassis" or what looks pretty definitively to be the lastepisode of "Magnum, ...

'A MAN WHO WOULD STOP AT NOTHING'

May 01, 1988; ... LOS ANGELES - Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia, who portraysAristotle Onassis in a new ABC miniseries, says he thinks the Greekshipping magnate got the idea for his first fortune at the movies."The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Aristotle Onassis"tells how Onassis made ...

THE SENATE'S AIDS STANCE

May 01, 1988 ... With Senate passage of a billion-dollar AIDS bill, Congresshas at last wrested the reins from the slow-to-respond Reaganadministration. As should have happened far sooner, the billdeclares AIDS a national health emergency and calls for a nationalAIDS research program akin to ...

CUTTING OFF ALIENS

May 01, 1988 ... Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyoming) was pleased with himself onThursday. He had no cause to be. Simpson and 39 other senators hadjust filibustered millions of illegal aliens into a position wherethey have only a few days left to either get to the nearestimmigration office or get out of the ...

VALUING CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES

May 01, 1988 ... The lead story in the special Learning section on librariesin today's Globe discusses the growing concerns of librariansabout where they are going to store all the books, magazines andnewspapers that a library holds in trust for future generations ofreaders. Indeed, ...

GUATEMALAN GESTURES

May 01, 1988 ... The airport arrest in Guatemala last month of two members ofa delegation of exiles returning under the Arias peace plansugested that Guatemalan politics has not changed much. RigobertaMenchu, a Quiche Indian woman who leads a peasant union, andRolando Castillo, a physician and ...

VULNERABILITY OF THE CANDIDATES

May 01, 1988; ... George Bush's great advantage in primary season was theperception of him by Republican voters as the heir to the Reaganlegacy. Now that he has the nomination arithmetically locked up, hemust appeal to a broader constituency.For without Ronald Reagan, the Reagan legacy may seem ...

BIG LAW FIRMS MOVE INTO CRIMINAL DEFENSE

May 01, 1988; ... Gary Crossen doesn't look like a hotshot attorney who worksat one of Boston's venerable law firms. His closely spaced anddeep-set eyes still carry the glare of the prosecutor thatrepresented the government's case in more than 30 jury trialsranging from drug running to bank ...

IBM -- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK REVIVED IBM READIES NEW TECHNOLOGY IN FIGHT AGAINST TOUGH COMPETITION

May 01, 1988; ... IRVING, Texas - Across the antiseptic white expanse ofIBM's test center here, computers of all sizes blink and purr. Thisis where IBM measures itself against the competition.It is a busy place. The $54 billion behemoth still casts along shadow across the computer industry, ...

A FUNKY REWARD

May 01, 1988; ... Its center, now a parking lot for theater-goers, is too oftenpatrolled by hookers. Its interior street names -- Tamworth andLaGrange -- mean little to most.In planning jargon, it is called "the hinge block" because itwill open the door to the most lively and urbane section of ...

CALL FLORIDA FOR INFORMATION ON AT&T AND THE BABY BELLS

May 01, 1988; ...Beatson Wallace will answer investors' questions in the Thursday and Sunday Business Section. Send letters, including name, address and telephone number, to: Beatson Wallace, The Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. 02107. Q. In your 3/20/88 column you ...

HOW US COMPETES: THE CASE OF SILICON

May 01, 1988; ... What steel was to the American economy for 30 years after WorldWar II, semiconductors are today. These tiny silicon wafers,imprinted with evermore complicated electronic circuits, areembedded in everything from credit cards to sewing machines tosatellites. They're the basic building ...

THE VICTIMS OF A CHANGING MARKET SALES SLUMP PUTS MANY IN A PINCH

May 01, 1988; ... As a broker trying to sell houses in a soft market, AliceKommesar finds herself in a unusual position: besides holdingfrantic clients' hands, she's also holding her own.The problem? She and her husband are carrying not only amortgage on the house where they live, but another ...

ARCHITECTS

May 01, 1988 ... Philemon Sturges, design principal, Stahl Associates, Boston; DanN. Fixler and Thomas McCarty, senior associates, Hannah Banks,Darlene Brown, Bobbi ...

HIGH TECHNOLOGY

May 01, 1988 ... Barry Bycoff, vice president, Thomas Pine, corporate vicepresident, Kenneth Roy, corporate vice president, and NeilMcMullen, vice president, Prime Computer Inc., Natick; Dawn L.Hannafin, vice president, Banyan Systems Inc., Westborough.James ...

FINANCE

May 01, 1988 ... Virginia Healy-Tangney, vice president/director of marketing,Southstate Bank, Brockton; Phyllis A. Schroder, vice president,Marty M. Fain and Kathleen A. Glancy, assistant vice president,John T. Russell, senior tax officer, State Street Bank, Boston.Kenneth J. Taubes, senior vice ...

ENGINEERING

May 01, 1988 ... Clarence D. Beatty, engineering manager, Joanne H. Perwak, seniorenvironmental engineer, and John Kubiczki, senior hydrogeochemist,Wehran Engineering, Methuen; William A. Duvel, ...

2 PROMOTED AT PROJECT SOFTWARE

May 01, 1988 ... Donald E. Wallroth was named senior vice president and chieffinancial officer and William J. Sawyer was named senior vicepresident of operations at Project Software & Development Inc.(PSDI), Cambridge.Wallroth formerly was vice president of finance andadministration and has been ...

PARTNERSHIP BUYS QUINCY BUILDING

May 01, 1988 ... REVLP Limited Partnership has purchased the Quincy Center OfficeBuilding at 159 Burgin Parkway for $4.2 million.The 70,000-square-foot, three-story building is currentlyoccupied by New England Telephone. REVLP says it intends torenovate the entire building.Bruce A. Levine ...

BRICKS & MORTAR

May 01, 1988; ... The state is jumping into the analysis business. The ExecutiveOffice of Communities and Development has started publishing aquarterly report on housing. The first issue predicts that thestate will see an easing of the affordability problem in the 1990sbecause more housing is being produced, ...

PROBLEM WITH NUMBERS

May 01, 1988; ... William North, executive vice president of the NationalAssociation of Realtors, was in town last week to meet with membersof the press in honor of National Home Week.By the tone of his talk about homeownership, he should havevisited on Patriot's Day, and carried a fife and ...

SOME HISTORY FOR SALE

May 01, 1988; ... The passport to America described its holder as a valet. Had itnot been for that minor -- but demeaning -- detail, NapoleonBonaparte might have plotted his return to the throne of Francefrom the quiet woods of Bolton, Massachusetts.As Edward Everett Hale was to remark: "Who knows ...

GET READY FOR YOUR SCREEN TEST BEFORE THE HEAT IS ON

May 01, 1988; ... Hooray, hooray, it's the first of May, outdoor screening iseffective today.It may be just a tad early for basking on the screen porch --and for letting the breezes flow into the house. But if you getafter the screens soon, you will have the chore done by the timethe ...

COMING TO GRIPS WITH. . . GANGS

May 01, 1988; ... From the musical romance of "West Side Story" to the grittyviolence of "Colors," youth gangs have long exerted romanticattraction. But in the 1980s, urban gangs dramatize the story ofAmerica's invisible society, the underclass.In Dennis Hopper's movie "Colors," in remarks of ...

CEDAR BLEEDS THROUGH STAIN

May 01, 1988; ... Q. The red cedar shingles on my one-year-old old house werestained with a white, semitransparent stain. Now the cedar isbleeding through. Can I cover the shingles with a white solidstain? -- Bill Connors, Blackstone.A. Yes. The bleeding of the red cedar through stain (andpaint) ...

IS BUSING STILL NEEDED? DEMOGRAPHICS RENEW HOPE FOR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS

May 01, 1988; ... In asking the question, white parents risk coming off as racistand black parents as betrayers of a civil rights cause. Butthroughout Boston, from Roxbury and South Boston to Dorchester andCharlestown, parents continue to ask: Why doesn't Boston reviveneighborhood schools?A ...

A DIG AT DUKE FROM AN OLD NEMESIS

May 01, 1988; ... The national Republicans are out to embarrass Gov. Dukakis withhis 11-year-old veto of a bill for a "Pledge of Allegiance" inpublic schools. The Duke's old nemesis, ex-Gov. Edward J. King, aGOP convert, used the issue in a recent Public Television interviewwith John McLaughlin. The fact ...

WRIGHT BLIND-SIDED FROM THE RIGHT

May 01, 1988; ... US House Speaker Jim Wright is a favorite target of theManchester Union Leader's editorial pages for what the paperconsiders his liberal tendencies. But a recent zinger by NackeyLoeb, the paper's publisher, may have been a bit below the belt. Afew days ago, Loeb whacked Wright for sending ...