The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 1989:
TALE OF TWO WOMEN
May 01, 1989; ... In 1934, the noted astronomer Annie Jump Cannon returned to heralma mater, Wellesley College, to speak to her 50th class reunion.She told this story: "During our senior year, one of the distinguished guests wasMatthew Arnold, who gave his lecture on Emerson, characterized as ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 1989 ... Correction: Because of an editing error, a story in yesterday'sMetro/ Region section on the latest Boston Globe-WBZ pollincorrectly referred to ...
COLLEGE GOP FORUM FAVORS CRONIN
May 01, 1989; ... Former US Rep. Paul Cronin emerged as the clear favoriteamong five prospective GOP gubernatorial candidates in a forumsponsored yesterday by the Massachusetts Federation of CollegeRepublicans.In a vote taken after the two-hour forum, held at BostonUniversity's Morse ...
BOSTON SEEKS BINDING PACTS WITH STATE ON ARTERY DIG
May 01, 1989; ... Anxious about the reliability of state guarantees tominimize disruption during the decade-long Central Artery and thirdharbor tunnel construction, Boston officials are asking the stateto sign legally-binding pacts spelling out how the city will becompensated for ...
FOWL PLAY
May 01, 1989 ... Two-year-old Graham Conway, attired in a duckling outfit, triesto hitch a ride during the Duckling Day parade at ...
HOSPITAL GROUP'S AD FUELS FUNDING DEBATE
May 01, 1989; ... It only takes 30 seconds, but the Massachusetts HospitalAssociation's television advertisement, "Lights Out," has had adramatic effect on the debate over the cost of health care andadded a new controversy to already strained relations between thestate's hospitals and the Dukakis ...
REPORT TO CALL FOR APPOINTED SCHOOL BOARD
May 01, 1989; ... The Boston School Committee should be abolished and replaced witha smaller board appointed by the mayor, according to a report to bereleased today by Mayor Flynn's advisory committee on education.The report, contents of which were confirmed by advisorycommittee members, culminates ...
FEUD IS SAID TO DELAY MWRA PLAN
May 01, 1989; ... A plan by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority tolease 1,000 parking spaces at Suffolk Downs has been held upbecause of the Dukakis administration's antagonism toward the racetrack's landlord, Buddy LeRoux, sources said last week.The MWRA wants workers building the ...
CANTON MAN IS FOUND SLAIN IN REST AREA ALONG ROUTE 3
May 01, 1989; ... A Canton man was found dead around 3 a.m. yesterday in arest area along Route 3 in Weymouth after being shot twice in thehead.Jerry Brancaccio, 52, of Elizabeth Street, was found slumpedon the ground by his car in the rest area on the northbound side ofRoute 3, said ...
'PARK AND RIDE' GETS COMPETITION T'S CONTRACTOR REPORTEDLY HYPING A DISCOUNT FOR DOWNTOWN DRIVERS
May 01, 1989; ... While the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority goesout of its way to tell suburbanites to park and ride, itscontractors seem to have other ideas. Louis Conrad, who commutes to Boston from Swampscott,reported that as he pulled into the T parking lot at ...
CHINATOWN GROUPS MAY BE POSITIONING FOR ACCESS TO PROJECT FUND
May 01, 1989; ... One of Chinatown's oldest business and culturalorganizations has sent a letter to Mayor Flynn asking that thepowers of the city's Chinese liaison be clarified.The letter by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Associationconcerning liaison Yon Lee may represent the beginning ...
3 SOUTH SUBURBAN TOWNS REJECT TAX-CAP OVERRIDES
May 01, 1989; ... Voters in Hingham, Marshfield and Pembroke on Saturdayrejected proposals to override the tax-limiting measures ofProposition 2 1/2.Without the overrides, officials in two of the towns may haveto lay off municipal employees in order to balance operatingbudgets....
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S AN AIR CONDITIONER! COPTER LIFTS 8-TON UNITS TO SKYSCRAPER ROOFTOP
May 01, 1989; ... Hundreds of spectators watched in awe yesterday morning asan immense helicopter lifted pieces of machinery weighing up to17,000 pounds to the roof of a downtown building despite heavy fogthat caused a three-hour delay.Several blocks around the 100 Summer St. building were ...
BU EXEMPTION BID DISTURBS CHELSEA GROUPS
May 01, 1989; ... As Boston University's plan to manage the troubled Chelseapublic school system winds its way out of that city and into thehands of the state Legislature, many are concerned about theuniversity's request for exemption from various public interestlaws.The university has ...
SIX-MONTH TERM LEVIED FOR YEAR-LONG VENDETTA
May 01, 1989; ... Eric Rose, 72, of Jamaica Plain, said last week that histroubles began in 1986 after he helped rescue a driver whose carwas being battered by two brothers armed with a lead pipe.For the next year, Rose, a retired contractor, said he foundhimself threatened and shot at ....
PARTY OFFICIAL ASSAILS SAFETY AT CHERNOBYL
May 01, 1989; ... MOSCOW - A regional Communist Party chief said in an articlepublished yesterday that safety standards have slipped at theChernobyl power plant, and he demanded that the government provideit with better-trained specialists. The article appeared in theCommunist Party daily Pravda, and came ...
2 MISSING AFTER FALL FROM US SUBMARINE
May 01, 1989; ... TOKYO - Two US Navy submarine crewmen were missing today afterthree of them fell overboard in waters off Japan's southwesternisland of Kyushu, coast guard officials said. One of the three whofell from the 2,145-ton Barbel was rescued later, said an officialof the Maritime Safety Agency's ...
CENTRIST IS NOMINEE FOR TOP BRAZIL PARTY
May 01, 1989; ... BRASILIA - Ulysses Guimaraes, a centrist, defeated a progressiveopponent yesterday to win the presidential nomination of thegoverning party at the end of a turbulent convention. The selectionis considered the formal opening of the campaign for the country'sfirst direct presidential ...
WELD DECIDES TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR
May 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Former US Attorney William Weld has decided toseek the 1990 Republican nomination for governor of Massachusetts.In an interview with the Globe, Weld ended speculation abouthis immediate political future by saying he would establish anelection committee in June ...
CIVIL RIGHTS AT ISSUE IN FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS SEIZURES, EVICTIONS DEBATED
May 01, 1989; ... At a federally subsidized housing project in Dorchester, alandlord moves to evict an alleged teen-age drug dealer who isterrorizing tenants. But the youth's mother -- "a perfect tenant"-- must be evicted too. Tenants in another Dorchester project have struggled for ...
WATERTOWN TEACHERS END STRIKE
May 01, 1989; ... Watertown teachers are scheduled to return to work this morningfollowing ratification of a three-year contract shortly beforemidnight last night.The town's five public schools have been closed to 2,700students since the system's 250 teachers voted to strike beginninglast ...
MOST HOPEFULS FAVOR CURBS ON ABORTION
May 01, 1989; ... After largely being spared political consequences for theirpersonal or party platforms on the abortion question for the last16 years, the would-be successors to Gov. Dukakis are bracing forthe political crucible they could be forced to endure if theSupreme Court allows states greater ...
ONE DAY'S LESSONS IN CHELSEA
May 01, 1989; ... This is the first in a series of occasional stories aboutone classroom in Chelsea, where the School Committee and the Boardof Aldermen have agreed to a precedent-setting agreement that wouldallow Boston University to run the school system. The children'sidentities were disguised at ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1989 ... Q. Can you give me the name of an organization to which Ican send the cards I received last Christmas? -- A.M., MarshfieldA. The City Mission Society of the Union Church of Waban againis looking for cards. Two years ago, the society was inundated withcards and pleaded for a ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1989 ... Q. Where can I get information on the sailing ship Spirit ofMassachusetts? -- P.H., NeedhamA. The 125-foot, two-masted schooner is operated by NewEngland Historic Seaport, which offers a series of voyages eachyear on the tall ship. A spokesman says the next ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1989 ... Q. When were Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce born and whendid they die? -- K.M., Durham, N.H.A. The Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson of more than a dozenmovie adventures of the introspective detective from Baker Streethad more than one thing in common. Both adopted modified ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1989 ... Q. How many infants does Massachusetts allow in a singleday-care center? -- R.P., BostonA. According to Janet Hookailo, spokesman for the state Officefor Children, the state imposes no limit on the number of infantsin a day-care facility at any given time, but no more than ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1989 ... Q. Which lanes can trucks use on Massachusetts highways? Howold is the law restricting truck use of lanes? -- F.M., QuincyA. According to Registrar Robert Hutchinson, lane usage bycommercial vechicles weighing more than 2 1/2 tons is regulated byChapter 89, Section 4C, of ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1989 ... Q. Where did turnpikes get that name? -- K.R., NorfolkA. Long before the invention of the automobile and long beforethe bureaucratic mind conceived the idea of a toll road, many ofthe important highways of the day were privately owned. Horse-drawnwagons, stagecoaches and ...
AFTERMATH OF RIOTS
May 01, 1989 ... In photo above, Mauritanian refugees (foreground) prepare toembark for home while Senegalese refugees (background) disembarkafter a trip from Mauritania. A joint Moroccan, French and Spanishairlift has been set up to return Mauritanians and Senegalese totheir homelands ...
'DIFFERENT WINDS' BRING HUNGARIAN THAW
May 01, 1989; ...Second of two articles. BUDAPEST - A Communist Party official, his office window open tothe unseasonably warm breezes off the River Danube, glanced outacross this city and said quietly, "Do you suppose they will oneday call this the Budapest Spring?"Hungarians remember ...
MINISTER, 3 IN FAMILY ARE SLAIN IN INDIANA
May 01, 1989; ... LAKEVILLE, Ind. - A minister, his wife and two of his daughterswere found shot to death inside their rural home yesterday morningafter he failed to show up for services, police said. The bodieswere discovered around 8 a.m. inside the parsonage next door to theOlive Branch United Brethren ...
NAVY QUIET ON REPORT OF MISFIRE ABOARD IOWA
May 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - The Navy is de clining comment on a report thatthe USS Iowa's No. 1 gun turret had a misfire in one of its 16-inchguns shortly before the battleship's No. 2 turret exploded, killing47 sailors, a Navy spokesman said yesterday. The Virginian-Pilotand The Ledger-Star of Norfolk, ...
WIDER LA INQUIRY SEEN INTO MAYOR'S FINANCES
May 01, 1989; ... LOS ANGELES - City officials plan to broaden an investigationinto Mayor Tom Bradley's financial dealings and his ties to acity-funded task force that hired his daughter, newspapers reportedyesterday. Investigators have interviewed officials about the ...
NASA RULES OUT LAUNCH OF SHUTTLE UNTIL FRIDAY
May 01, 1989; ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA began replacing two faultyfuel-system parts yesterday on the shuttle Atlantis in hope ofmaking another launch attempt by Friday. Officials said liftoffcould not occur before then. The launch of the shuttle and its $550million Magellan probe of Venus was scrubbed ...
GAO FAULTS RAILROADS IN REPORTING ACCIDENTS
May 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - A study of five major companies suggests some ofthe nation's railroads are underreporting accidents and injuriesand failing to keep proper records on them, the General AccountingOffice said ...
ALASKAN OFFICIALS PRESS EXXON TO SPEED CLEANUP
May 01, 1989; ... VALDEZ, ALASKA - State environmental officials said yesterdaythey are are pressuring Exxon to be more aggressive in their oilspill cleanup. Meanwhile, the Anchorage Daily News reported thatthe oilfield services company Exxon hired to carry out the cleanupis scaling back its work force at ...
RAIN SLOWS FOREST FIRE IN NORTHERN FLORIDA
May 01, 1989; ... OSCEOLA NATIONAL FOREST, FLA. - A drenching thunderstorm reduceda 13,000-acre forest fire near the Georgia border to only a fewsmoldering hot spots yesterday afternoon, fire ...
FACTORY-COMPLEX FIRE KILLS ONE IN JAPAN
May 01, 1989; ... TOKYO - An early-morning fire at a factory and workers'dormitory killed one person yesterday and left more than 40 peoplehomeless, authorities said. The fire started about 2:30 a.m. in the main factory buildingof the Shinko Spinning Co. in Sennan ...
ARTHUR HOWES, 81 CHURCH ORGANIST, CHOIR MASTER
May 01, 1989 ... Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in St.Paul's Episcopal Church, North Andover, for Arthur Wellesley Howes,a renowned church organist and musical director.Mr. Howes died of a heart attack Saturday in Lawrence GeneralHospital. He was 81 and lived in North ...
ELAINE JACOBSON FORMER PROBATION CONSULTANT
May 01, 1989 ... Elaine (Osborne) Jacobson, a former consultant to thejuvenile probation department of Middlesex District Court, diedSaturday in Jamaica Plain. In recent years, Mrs. Jacobson had made her home in PompanoBeach, Fla., although she lived most of her life in Jamaica Plain. ...
CHARLES PATTERSON WAS WORCESTER LAWMAKER; 72
May 01, 1989 ... Charles W. Patterson, a former state representative andlawyer in Worcester for many years, died Saturday in Buzzards Bay.He was 72.A lifelong resident of Worcester, Mr. Patterson graduated fromWorcester Academy, Harvard College in 1939 and Harvard Law Schoolin 1947. ...
E. M. SHAUGHNESSY WAS JORDAN MARSH CLERK; 85
May 01, 1989 ... A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. today in the Churchof St. Claire in Braintree for Elizabeth M. (O'Rourke) Shaughnessyof Braintree, who died of breast cancer Thursday in CardinalCushing Hospital in Brockton. She was 85.Mrs. Shaughnessy had been a clerk at Jordan ...
VOYAGER LOOKS AT NEPTUNE
May 01, 1989 ...(A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.) As the long-lived Voyager II spacecraft nears Neptune, theoutermost known planet in the solar system, it is sending backincreasingly detailed photos of features in Neptune's atmosphere.(CLARIFICATION: An item about the planet ...
ONE RESOLUTION THAT GOT RESULTS
May 01, 1989; ... The only thing worse than remembering your New Year's resolutionin May is being forced to remember it in public.Erika Goldberg, the 44-year-old Newton woman who allowed hercholesterol-lowering resolution to be made public in Health Sensein January, has lost neither her will nor ...
STUDIES DEBUNK CANCER SCARE PAPILLOMA THREAT OVERSTATED, DOCTORS SAY,AND PAINFUL LASER TREATMENT IS USELESS
May 01, 1989; ...(A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.) After several years of warning that a sexually transmitted viruscalled papilloma was spreading rapidly and posing a major cancerrisk, a number of leading researchers have concluded that thethreat has been both oversold and ...
HOW & WHY?
May 01, 1989 ... Q. Why does the space shuttle make two sonic booms when itlands? A.D., Mansfield.A: A double boom is the characteristic sound made by anythingmoving faster than the speed of sound, according to Cam Martin, aspokesman for NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia....
STUDY: DRUGS PREVENT ULCER RECURRENCE
May 01, 1989 ... Regular use of common ulcer medicine, taken even when peopleare healthy, can keep ulcers from returning, a study has found.Ranitidine and cimetidine can heal digestive ulcers within a monthor two, but doctors usually prescribe them only during flare-ups,and the ulcers usually ...
TOWER BUILDING DESIGNER WINS PRIZE
May 01, 1989; ... Frank O. Gehry, the Californian who designed Boston's TowerRecords building, has been named winner of the 1989 PritzkerArchitecture Prize.Given annually, the Pritzker, worth $100,000, is intended tobe the architectural equivalent of a Nobel Prize. It will bepresented to ...
PIAZZOLLA'S PASSIONATE NEW TANGO
May 01, 1989; ...ASTOR PIAZZOLLA and the NEW TANGO SEXTET -- At Blackman Auditorium, Northeastern University, Friday night. Astor Piazzolla's new tango is not standard pop-music fare.It draws from popular, ballroom tango in spirit and sound. Ithas retained its lyricism and ...
A 'BOHEME' DONE BETTER, NOT BIGGER
May 01, 1989; ...INDIAN HILL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Paul Gay, music director, in a concert in the Sentry Insurance Company Auditorium in Concord Saturday night. CONCORD - It is not always necessary to travel to the greatopera houses of the world to hear a convincing performance; ...
BLUIETT'S TOO-SPONTANEOUS SAX
May 01, 1989; ...HAMIET BLUIETT and Ensemble -- At the Newton Arts Center. Funded by the Mass Council on the Arts, Saturday. The philosopher said that the road of excess leads to the palaceof wisdom. But nobody said it should go through a concert hall --least of all while an audience ...
BARELY BELIEVABLE
May 01, 1989; ... Steven Tyler, lead singer of the Boston-based band Aerosmith, hashad, you might say, his troubles over the years with variouscontrolled and uncontrolled substances. But he swears he'sstraight now. So when he was two days late for a recent recordingsession in Vancouver, the boys in the band ...
THREE TALES OF LOVE A DAUGHTER'S ENDURANCE . . .
May 01, 1989; ... Michelle Sheperd, 22, learned to love running as a little girljogging the streets of Shrewsbury alongside her daddy. For herfirst Boston Marathon this year, she trained nine months, runningback roads in Lancaster, Northboro and Clinton, sometimes in snow,sometimes 24 miles. Having never run ...
TUFTS' NEW DEAN FOR THE EARTH
May 01, 1989; ... MEDFORD - As a child growing up in the North End in the1950s, Tony Cortese used to swim in Boston Harbor, "until it got sopolluted they had to close it down."The memory had an impact on him, and this month Cortese becamethe nation's first college ecodean.As Tufts ...
HOLLYWOOD AS A DISNEY FANTASY DISNEY WORLD'S VERSION OF A MOVIE STUDIO IS ALMOST TOO PERFECT -- BUT PERFECTLY IRRESISTIBLE
May 01, 1989; ... LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The inevitable question was tossedfrom the floor near the end of a press conference Saturday morning:"What would Walt think?"Walt. As in Disney. "I wonder . . . I wonder," mused Bette Midler, responding abit wistfully. Midler, the Walt ...
STRIDE RITE FUNDS HELPING STUDENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
May 01, 1989; ... When Kevin Joyce graduates from Harvard University nextmonth, he hopes to land his dream job: a $21,000-a-year postteaching children with AIDS.Ask why Joyce is choosing such work while many of hisclassmates look for Wall Street jobs paying $50,000 a year tostart, and he ...
A PORTFOLIO WITH CONSCIENCE
May 01, 1989; ... It's no secret that "social investors" avoid companies that arenotorious polluters or do business in political hot spots such asSouth Africa. What isn't widely known is that such investors can becaring capitalists -- and still earn a bundle.Since 1984, social investments have ...
VALDEZ SPILL COMES HOME TO EXXON
May 01, 1989; ... William "Gillie" Gilson has got a bone to pick with Exxon.Gilson, a 27-year-old teacher in Roxbury, will join thousandsof other people in tomorrow's one-day, six-state boycott of Exxongasoline stations to protest the company's handling of the Alaskanoil spill....
POLAROID VS. KODAK: DAMAGES TRIAL TO BEGIN TODAY: POLAROID VS. KODAK
May 01, 1989; ... Today in a Boston courtroom, archrivals Polaroid Corp. andEastman Kodak Co. square off in a trial that could culminate in thelargest payout ever awarded in a patent-infringement case.Polaroid, the Cambridge instant-photography giant thatrecently spent more than $1 billion ...
W.R. GRACE SEEKS PETER LYNCH AS DIRECTOR
May 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - Peter Lynch, Fidelity Investments' star moneymanager, has been asked to join the board of W.R. Grace, aspecialty chemical company whose largest shareholder is theFidelity group of mutual funds.To allow this arrangement, the Magellan Fund, which is managedby ...
SOX LOSE GAME IN FAST LANE, 2-1 MASTERS AT WORK
May 01, 1989; ... ARLINGTON, Texas - When past perfect meets future perfect youget . . . a masterpiece that lives up to its billing.This was Elvis and Springsteen together on stage. It wasClarence Darrow and Edward Bennett Williams delivering closingarguments in the same courtroom. It was Pablo ...
RYAN WINS OVER CLEMENS
May 01, 1989; ... ARLINGTON, Texas - For a brief and exquisite moment, theoutcome of this game was suspended high above the right-field foulline while 40,000 people looked on. Roger Clemens had thrown a92-m.p.h. fastball to Rafael Palmeiro, a pitch umpire StevePalermo said was close to being a ball, ...
UNLOCKING THE SECRET
May 01, 1989; ... AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Five years ago the Detroit Pistons wouldhave lost this game by 20. Two years ago they would have lost,period. Not by 20, perhaps, but it would have been an 'L'.Down 9, mid-third quarter of a playoff game, the other teamdictating tempo completely, the Olde ...
CELTICS LET PISTONS SLIP AWAY, 102-95
May 01, 1989; ... AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - They held the heartbeat of the ballgame intheir hands, their own pulse quickened by a 9-point third-quarterlead and a stretch of outstanding basketball the Boston Celticshave not matched on the road this season.The experience, however, ultimately proved to ...