The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from October 1989:
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
Oct 01, 1989; ... There are 600,000 Americans who can rest easy this week and next-- until the end of 1991, in fact. Many of them live in Boston andits suburbs. They're the people who earn more than $155,000 a yearand who pay taxes at the marginal rate of 28 percent.A Democratic plan to raise their ...
THE CASE OF THE MISSING YACHT SALESMAN FRED MCLAUGHLIN'S LIFE IS A MYSTERY TO HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
Oct 01, 1989; ... HINGHAM - "We've got yachts, yachts, MORE yachts, and we'reready to deal.""CUT."The screen test is stilted and McLaughlin flubs his line. It'seasy to do -- the line's a tongue-twister. The camera rollsunforgivingly. But the director of the shoot, the woman from acable ...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESCUE ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESCUE WELLESLEY'S EG&G TACKLES THE TROUBLED COLO. NUCLEAR PLANT
Oct 01, 1989; ... JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. - What is a low-profile,conservative Wellesley company doing in a situation like this?It wasn't the company's idea, but 10 days ago EG&G Inc. agreedto take over as operator of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant,the nation's only producer of ...
BENEFITS RULE IS DEAD -- FIRMS HOPE
Oct 01, 1989; ... The lopsided repeal last week by the US House ofRepresentatives of a law aimed at ending descrimination in employeebenefit plans marks an undiluted victory for businesses here andnationwide. The law, Section 89 of the US Tax Code "had every financialofficer in the state ...
DAD'S STOCK GIFT MAKES SON LIABLE FOR CAPITAL-GAINS TAX
Oct 01, 1989; ...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. When my father passed away in ...
FINANCE
Oct 01, 1989 ... Gavan Finley, assistant vice president, Richard W. Boudreau,Ashland branch manager, Framingham Savings Bank; Stephen B. Center,executive vice president, UNUM Life Insurance, Portland, Maine;Janis Woodman, Burlington loan manager, Karen Stavropoulos,Burlington branch manager, Domenic ...
DIRECTORS
Oct 01, 1989 ... Elected trustees at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston:William G. Lavelle, chairman of division of otolaryngology at UMassMedical Center Worcester, Kenneth Gropper, president of Shake Ltd.,J. Louis Newell Jr., vice president of Boston Safe Deposit ...
COMMUNICATIONS
Oct 01, 1989 ... Deborah Tatro, account executive, O'Neil Griifin Body, Inc.,Manchester, N.H.; Judith Young, design director, WNEV-TV, Channel7, Boston; Christina Lamb, advertising account supervisor,Christine Cratty, public relations account coordinator,Chaffee-Bedard Inc., Providence.Nancy ...
INDUSTRY
Oct 01, 1989 ... Alexander Ellis 3d, vice president of corporate accounts inBoston, Knoll International, New York.Alan L. Rosenfield, vice president, sales, J.N. Phillips GlassCo., Wakefield; Rita L. Mikaelian, New England Regional marketingdirector, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, ...
DENNISON PROMOTES KELLEY
Oct 01, 1989 ... Gary Kelley has been named director of administration forDennison Stationery Products Co., the new subsidiary formed throughthe consolidation of Dennison National and Dennison Carter's.Kelley joined Dennison in 1982 as MIS training coordinator.Before joining Dennison, he was a ...
POTPOURRI
Oct 01, 1989 ... Swissair and Scandinavian Airlines System will acquire up to 10percent of each other and unify some traffic routes and travelservices . . . The Belgian national bank raised short-term interestrates ...
ACCORD ON LOAN TO ARGENTINA
Oct 01, 1989 ... WASHINGTON - Argentina has reached agreement with theInternational Monetary Fund for a $1.4 billion loan to help thegovernment cope with the country's financial troubles, PresidentCarlos Menem and the IMF said. Argentina owes nearly $4.5 billionin ...
HONG KONG WANTS TO SELL IVORY
Oct 01, 1989 ... HONG KONG - Hong Kong, the world center of the ivory trade,should be allowed to sell its existing stockpile of tusks despiteinternational bans on ivory enacted to protect the endangeredAfrican elephant, a government official said Friday. Customsofficers Friday seized 1,540 pounds of ivory ...
EC TO ASK JAPAN TO CURB CAR SALES
Oct 01, 1989 ... BRUSSELS - The European Community is about to beg for time fromJapan's formidable carmakers. The European Commission, the EC'sexecutive body, will soon propose scrapping all bilateral quotas onJapanese auto imports after 1992, the planned starting date ...
BOEING RECEIVES $1 BILLION ORDER
Oct 01, 1989 ... SEATTLE - Thirty-one Boeing airliners valued at about $1 billionhave been ordered by the Lufthansa Group of companies. LufthansaLeasing, a new company, ordered eight 757s. Condor, the whollyowned subsidiary airline, ordered three more of the twinjets fordelivery beginning in May ...
CHINA TO LOSE $1.3B IN TOURISM
Oct 01, 1989 ... SAN FRANCISCO - The massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators inBeijing's Tiananmen Square last June has cost the People's Republicat least $1 billion in lost tourist revenues. "We lost $1 billionor so this year," said Chinese Counsel General Zheng Wanzhen of SanFrancisco after a ...
KOITO SEES PICKENS LINK TO WATANABE
Oct 01, 1989 ... TOKYO - Japanese auto-parts maker Koito Manufacturing Co. hassent a letter to Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens saying he appears tobe in league with a man who has tried to greenmail Koito. Theletter, released last week by lawyers working for Koito, is Koito'sstrongest statement yet against ...
FINANCIAL-AID FIRM DROPPED AT HARVARD
Oct 01, 1989; ...Anthony Flint is a contributing reporter at the Globe. Harvard University has quietly agreed to dissolve Student AidServices, the school's controversial financial-aid-services firm.The firm, which was operated by three Harvard admissionsofficers, will be discontinued ...
FUN IN KINDERGARTEN FOR CLASS OF 2002
Oct 01, 1989; ...Teaching Tools is a regular column designed to discuss ideas and techniques used by elementary and secondary teachers. Readers interested in submitting ideas for future columns should write to: Teaching Tools, Learning, Boston Sunday Globe, ...
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION ANNOUNCES SEMIFINALISTS
Oct 01, 1989 ... The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has announced thesemifinalists in the Merit Scholarship competition of 1990. Some6,000 Merit scholarships will be awarded in the spring.High school students qualify for the awards by taking thePreliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/ ...
A DILEMMA FOR PARENTS LOCAL SCHOOL-BUDGET CUTS SEND THEM SCURRYING TO INVESTIGATE ALTERNATIVES
Oct 01, 1989; ... As the state's financial shortfall pummels local schoolbudgets, even those parents who avidly support public educationcannot help but worry about their children's schooling. Because of teacher and program cutbacks and classes with asmany as 27 students, some parents have ...
EXCERPTS FROM BUSH'S TALK AT THE EDUCATION SUMMIT
Oct 01, 1989 ... So, let us make this an education society. We've alreadycome close to this Jeffersonian ideal. Our educational system is,in many ways, unrivaled in its scale and its diversity and itscommitment to meeting special needs and individual differences. Andwe're inspired by our best ...
SDI: R.I.P.? WHEN RONALD REAGAN LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE, THE LIFE SUPPORT OF 'STAR WARS'' WENT WITH HIM
Oct 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Say goodbye to "star wars."First, George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg called it quitsafter the second sequel to the multimillion-dollar "Star Wars"movie, abandoning their dream of a 10-part epic that would lastthrough the ages.Now, George Bush and Dick ...
INDIANS WIN BATTLE FOR PAST SKELETAL REMAINS TO BE RETURNED
Oct 01, 1989; ... In a precedent-setting decision, the Smithsonian Institutionrecently announced that it will return the skeletal remains ofabout 18,650 Native Americans to their tribes for reburial. Thedecision is being hailed by Indian leaders, not only because itresolves a longstanding dispute over proper ...
WHY MADISON AVENUE MIXES ROCK AND BEER ADVERTISERS SIGN UP SUPERSTARS IN THE BELIEF THAT IMAGE AS MUCH AS QUALITY ATTRACTS BUYERS
Oct 01, 1989; ... When I'm watching my TVAnd a man comes on and tells meHow white my shirts could be.But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smokeThe same cigarettes as meI can't get no satisfaction! Once upon a time, the Rolling Stones sang ...
A SEQUEL FOR THE COLD-ARTED SLASHER
Oct 01, 1989; ... The parliamentary maneuverings by Sen. Jesse Helms, conservativeRepublican from North Carolina, were at their worst late Thursdayand early Friday as Helms tried in vain to get the US Senate to cutoff funds to the National Endowment for the Arts if it supportsindecent pieces of art. But the ...
AS THE (POLITICAL) WORLD TURNS
Oct 01, 1989; ... On Beacon Hill, where the budget debate has become something of along-running soap opera, a new wrinkle has been introduced thisseason. Last time we tuned in, Gov. Dukakis was all lovey-doveywith Sen. Patricia McGovern (D-Lawrence), the Senate's top budgetofficial, and fuming at her ...
TALK WON'T SOLVE EDUCATION WOES
Oct 01, 1989; ... Perhaps it was just the timing, but it did seem a bit ironic.While President Bush said in his two-day summit on educationthis week that the nation is imperiled when its children grow intoadulthood "ignorant and unskilled," the US Senate restored $600million it had cut from the ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... James Snow, state commissioner of Labor and Industries, has beennamed one of the recipents of the 1989 Patrick Volpe Award by ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... Laura Dowd, president of the abortion-rights group Mass. Choice,is expecting triplets on Jan. 22, the 16th anniversary of ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... Tom Reilly, the former first assistant district attorney ofMiddlesex County who is now a candidate for DA, had his campaigndebut Thursday night, raising close to $100,000 at the HyattRegency hotel in Cambridge. Attending the fund-raiser were somefolks Reilly hopes to make his colleagues: ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... Former state Sen. Jack Quinlan is about to be named campaignmanager for Jim Rappaport, a GOP challenger to John Kerry in nextyear's US Senate race. Quinlan, a Republican who ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... So many staffers from the city's Office of Neighborhood Serviceswere in Allston-Brighton during Tuesday's election to work forJudith Bracken, a former co-worker who was running for districtcouncilor, that one might have throught the city agency had ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... BRA director Stephen Coyle is suffering a staff brain-drain sincehe turned down the offer to become development czar in St. Louisearlier this year. Mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl Jr. subsequentlytapped Coyle's chief of staff, Christopher Grace, to take ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... Joe Arena of Orient Heights in East Boston was a busy man inTuesday's preliminary election in Boston. Arena, who is somethingof a legend in the neighborhood, was working the polling stationfor four different at-large City Council candidates at the ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... Robert L. Beal, the Boston real estate entrepreneur whom Gov.Dukakis tapped to be chairman of the Massachusetts IndustrialFinance Authority, doesn't let politics get in the way of ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... The National Conference of State Legislatures reports this year'sincome-tax hike placed Massachusetts fourth-highest in the nationin terms of tax increases. The Bay State's $494 million tax ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Oct 01, 1989; ... Press release of the week: Honors go to Peter Dimond of the MBTAfor getting the titles of 10 Rolling Stones songs into asingle-page release promoting a train to the Stones' concerttonight in Foxborough. Samples: "Get no satisfaction out of ...
THIS TEXAN IS A STRAIGHT-SHOOTER
Oct 01, 1989; ... The first thing to say about Ann Richards is that she has justabout done it all:Raised four kids; got herself a nice little career in politicsthat's not so little anymore; slogged through divorce; survivedhand-to-hand combat with alcoholism. And last year, in full viewof umpteen ...
CHINA'S ENDURING PERCEPTION
Oct 01, 1989 ... Today's celebrations in China, marking the 40th anniversaryof the People's Republic, should have been as much aforward-looking occasion as a memorial one. It should have beenpossible to see the past years of solid accomplishment asindications of even greater ones to come....
LAYOFFS AND BUMP-OVERS
Oct 01, 1989 ... In the move toward a layoff of 2,300 state workers byJanuary, little attention has been paid to how difficult it is toremain in compliance with union and civil service rules. Fargreater dislocation of workers may be in store than the loss ofthose immediately targeted for ...
A MEDICARE FUNDING FLAW
Oct 01, 1989 ... A little-noticed provision of the 1988 Medicarecatastrophic-coverage act would require all states to pay -- asMassachusetts already does -- monthly Medicare premiums and otherrelated medical costs for impoverished elderly people. Now,lobbyist groups for the elderly have reversed an ...
THE GOLDEN MONTH
Oct 01, 1989; ... Perhaps not everyone feels that crispness that enlivens the step.Perhaps not all New Englanders are enthralled with foliage orFlutie. The advent of tweed weather depresses some, forcing theminto a pre-winter womb of anxiety.This is the time to savor how changing seasons enliven ...
SEEKING A CAPITAL GAINS DEAL
Oct 01, 1989; ... WASHINGTON - Something more important than taxes was on theminds of members of the House of Representatives last week.Ithas been driving domestic policy all year, especially in theabsence of anything worthy of the term "alternative."That something -- a pervasive hostility ...
GIVE FRANK A BREAK, AMERICA
Oct 01, 1989; ... There's been more hypocrisy, more disingenuousness and morecynical calculation on display in the matter of Barney Frank thanin any public event in memory. Let's talk about this thing likeconsenting adults, OK?Where, may I ask, is the compassion, the egalitarianism, ...
BRICKS AND MORTAR
Oct 01, 1989; ... HELP!: The Greater Boston Adult Shelter Alliance, a coalition ofagencies serving the homeless, needs space for emergency sheltersthis winter, and for transitional and permanent housing. ContactWendy Simmons of B. Doney Associates at 523-3060 . . . Two eventsof interest: The Massachusetts ...
NEWS FROM EAST CAMBRIDGE
Oct 01, 1989; ... If brokers selling River Court, one of the luxury condo projectson the Charles in East Cambridge, seem a little pushy these days,here's why: A marketing team hired by developer Jon Davis isrewarding brokers who sell units by Nov. 15.One sale gets the broker a trip for two to New ...
FORGING AHEAD IN THE FENWAY
Oct 01, 1989; ... The developers of Olmsted Plaza, the ambitious remake of the oldFenway Sears into medical research space, have apparently decidedthey'd rather switch than fight.Last Thursday, JMB/Urban Development Co. unveiled a newversion of the $250 million project to neighbors. A ...
CENTER OF ATTENTION
Oct 01, 1989; ... With little fanfare - until you step in the door, that is --Gerald D. Hines Interests has opened the marketing center for 222Berkeley St., a 22-story office tower set to open in 1991.Accompanied by the gentle hum of moving walls (as one model isrevealed, another disappears), the ...
FOX-WATCHING
Oct 01, 1989; ... He has advertised himself as the South Shore's largest and mostsuccessful condo developer. Bankers, marketers, even competingdevelopers are fulsome in their praise of his ability to sellwell-constructed, moderately-priced condos to people who thoughtthey were shut out of home ...
BIOTECH FIRMS HUNGRY FOR SPACE FIELD MAY BE ANSWER TO SLOW MARKET
Oct 01, 1989; ... The way Dean Stratouly tells it, the idea at Building 149 inthe Charlestown Navy Yard in 1986 was to turn it into low-pricedspace for clerical divisions of downtown firms. Then came thevisits from potential tenants who wouldn't identify themselves, andwho were interested in more than ...
PEOPLE IN REAL ESTATE BAY STATE REALTOR, BUILDER ARE HONORED
Oct 01, 1989 ... The Massachusetts Association of Realtors has named itsrealtor of the year and the Home Builders Association ofMassachusetts has named its builder of the year.Marybeth Bergeron of Longmeadow was honored as the top realtorat the association's 65th annual convention in Puerto ...
BUILDING PLANNED IN PORTLAND, MAINE
Oct 01, 1989 ... Northland Investment Corp. said it plans to begin construction ofTwo Portland Square, a seven-story, 140,000-square-foot,first-class office building in downtown Portland, Maine.UNUM Corp. and the Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. will be theanchor tenants and will guarantee the structure ...
SOME HIGHS AND LOWS IN MODEL YEAR '89
Oct 01, 1989; ... Automobile Year 1989 is history, but there are still a few thingsleft unsaid about what it brought us. With more than 400 models inthe marketplace, and only 52 weeks in the year, it is difficult forthe author of a weekly column to cover all. So today I offer somecomments on cars tried but ...
NEA FACES A BATTLE FOR ITS LIFE
Oct 01, 1989; ... The National Endowment for the Arts is in a battle for its life.Its forward positions are being attacked fiercely by socialconservatives and the religious right; at the same time, radicalpopulists from the left are trying to overrun its base camp andredeploy its forces.The ...
PFEIFFER OVERCOMES HER GOOD LOOKS
Oct 01, 1989; ... BEVERLY HILLS - Forget the Golden Girl cliches you keep readingabout Michelle Pfeiffer. She's more complicated than that. At 32,she's professionally assured and focused, personally shy. When shesteps off a Beverly Hills hotel elevator with her publicist and ismet by a glance of recognition ...
THROUGH THE AMAZON WITH PAINT AND CANVAS
Oct 01, 1989; ... A real butterfly lies at the heart of one of Rick Harlow's newpaintings. It flew into the canvas when Harlow was in the earlystages of the work and stuck there. The artist based the rest ofthe painting on the scalloped and dotted patterns of its wings,patterns that reverberate through a ...
TIME IS ON THE STONES' SIDE
Oct 01, 1989; ... What started as a brash outburst of youthful exuburance hasbecome a long-running campaign of rock 'n' roll endurance. TheRolling Stones -- unofficially dubbed "the world's greatest rock'n' roll band" -- have been around since before the assassinationof John F. Kennedy. They've persevered ...
'ART OF THE WESTERN WORLD' SERIES IS AMBITIOUS BUT BLAND
Oct 01, 1989; ... One of the occupational hazards of the art history teacher is theslide operator who doesn't turn up for class. (Solution: "Well, ifwe had those Poussin slides today, here's what you might haveseen.") A worst-case scenario now and then occurs when the slideshave indeed arrived, and the ...
HOW ROBERT HARLEY STUMBLED INTO PLAYWRITING
Oct 01, 1989; ...ARTS ETC. (CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, the name of RobertHarling, the playwright of "Steel Magnolias," was misspelled in aninterview in Sunday's ArtsEtc. section.) For a man who blew smokethrough his nose and out his ears for a living, Robert Harley hascome a long ...
CLASSIC HEPBURN
Oct 01, 1989; ... These days, Dorothy Arzner's "Christopher Strong" (1933) shows upon Katharine Hepburn retrospectives as an example of theconstraints on talented women. Its story of a noble-souled aviatrix(Hepburn, of course) who falls in love with an unworthy and effetepolitician (Colin Clive) and chooses ...
SASSOON -- ORPHANAGE TO HAIRSTYLE EMPIRE
Oct 01, 1989; ... Vidal Sassoon, once a shampoo boy in London's East End and ahigh-school dropout, has a line of hair-care products that generatean annual volume of $120 million.How did he hit the top? How did he become an enduringinternational name? Why do people flock to the beauty salons ...
CATASTROPHIC CARE LAW: WHAT WENT WRONG?
Oct 01, 1989; ... Chaos and confusion reign over what to do with the MedicareCatastrophic Care Law of 1988 that was Ronald Reagan's legacy toolder Americans.Will Congress decide to repeal the law, as proposed by US Rep.Brian Donnelly (D-Mass.) and others, because of bitter protestsfrom seniors who ...
MEXICO -- A SHRINE AND A CITY ARE POWERFUL NATIONAL SYMBOLS
Oct 01, 1989; ... MEXICO CITY - The plaza of the shrine of Our Lady ofGuadalupe is a vast ceremonial space sometimes filled with tens ofthousands of prayerful people, many of whom approach it on theirknees. But no place frequented by large numbers of Mexicans canever be truly solemn for ...
BLANTYRE CASTLE IN THE BERKSHIRES
Oct 01, 1989; ... LENOX - There is a small, elite group of country houses inthe United States modeled after European inns -- luxurioushostelries that cater to the rich and famous. These are placeswhere the clientele is addressed by name, where eccentricities aretolerated (even indulged), where ...