The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from June 1992:
AIDS walkers set 2 records
Jun 01, 1992; ...of this article. In an expression of solidarity with friends, loved ones, andstrangers stricken with AIDS, 35,000 walkers yesterday raised $2.5million for AIDS prevention and care. It was the largest turnout and the greatest sum raised since theAIDS Action Committee ...
Offering Weld a primer on the state track facility
Jun 01, 1992; ...Iwas disappointed to hear Gov. Weld offer questions instead ofanswers when asked Frdiay about the state school track facility atNortheastern University. Since Speaker of the House Charles Flaherty included the track inthe 1993 budget a little more than a week ago, the governor ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1992 ... Q. How were ice hockey rinks resurfaced before the Zamboni machinewas invented?J.A., SomervilleA. A researcher at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto tells us thatprior to the advent of the Zamboni machine, ice rinks were swept byhand and then flooded with hot water from ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1992 ... Q. Is the Royal Stafford China Co. of England still in business?I would like to replace a broken teacup, but I don't know how tocontact the company.C.K., MansfieldA. A spokeswoman for the British Trade Development ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jun 01, 1992 ...Q. Who was Betty Boop? D.P., SomervilleA. Betty Boop was first created as a dog character by cartoonist GrimNatwick in the 1920s, according to the World Encyclopedia ofCartoons. She appeared as the girlfriend of the equally canine Bimboin the "Talkartoons" series, produced by Max and ...
Walter A. Avery, 68 Was accountant for Canton firm
Jun 01, 1992 ... Walter A. Avery of Quincy, a retired cost accountant with thePlymouth Rubber Co. of Canton, died Saturday in his home. He was 68. Born in Quincy, Mr. Avery was the son of the late Quincy policechief, John J. Avery. He graduated from Quincy High School in 1941 and served in ...
Mensa and me
Jun 01, 1992; ... What kind of person would cheat on the Mensa admissions test andstill not get in? Read on . . . Mensa is the famous society for smart people, founded in 1946 bytwo British lawyers who thought humanity could be saved if only theworld's most intelligent people would gather around one ...
Furthering the language of sorrow
Jun 01, 1992; ... THE MAN WITH NIGHT SWEATS By Thom Gunn Farrar Straus & Giroux, 88 pp., $15 The subject of "The Man with Night Sweats," poet Thom Gunn's newbook, is an emotional minefield -- AIDS, the tossing and turningtoward death, bodies leached to ash by night and sweat and ...
Bush advisers tout Cheney for chief of staff
Jun 01, 1992; ... WASHINGTON -- Amid rumors of continued unrest at top stafflevels in the White House and the Bush-Quayle campaign, two topadvisers are touting Defense Secretary Dick Cheney for chief ofstaff. The outside advisers, known to have influence with the presidentand his ...
TWISTS IN THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Hopefuls lack Calif. spotlight
Jun 01, 1992; ... LOS ANGELES -- The long, winding trail of weekly presidentialprimaries that began nearly four months ago in New Hampshire runs outhere tomorrow in a contest that has been eclipsed by interest in RossPerot and a profusion of local races. Both President Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton of ...
Techno-politics is coming of age
Jun 01, 1992; ...Ross Perot's satellite campaign rally, beamed simultaneously tosix states on Friday, was hailed by the political world as amasterstroke of technological innovation designed to circumventcleverly both a restive press corps and the grueling pace oftraditional campaign ...
AIDS WALK
Jun 01, 1992 ... Some of the estimated 35,000 participants walk from the Commonto the Public Garden yesterday in the From All ...
TIME FOR PRAYER --
Jun 01, 1992 ...Members of the Pillar of Fire, Sons of God Apostolic BaptistChurch move their outdoor service to a covered walkway ...
JAKARTA RALLY --
Jun 01, 1992 ...A backer of the Democratic Party of Indonesia wears war paint ashe rides on a friend's ...
Report hits China over prisoners Beijing accused of holding many dissidents in Hunan
Jun 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- As President Bush prepares today to renewtrade benefits for China, a new report accuses the Chinese governmentof imprisoning hundreds of dissidents in one province alone forsupporting the 1989 democracy movement.Nearly 600 new political prisoners were behind ...
Clinton camp weighing 30-minute broadcasts once a week
Jun 01, 1992; ...LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Bill Clinton, in the weeks leading up tothe Democratic National Convention, may seek to keep a high profileby appearing once a week in 30-minute prime-time television spots.The plan, according to sources close to the campaign, would letClinton remain ...
CORRECTION
Jun 01, 1992 ...CORRECTION: The obituary of Claire Connolly, 66, of SouthBoston, yesterday incorrectly stated that burial is ...
Once again, Barrasso's play has been uplifting
Jun 01, 1992; ... CHICAGO -- By tonight, Tom Barrasso could be hoisting theStanley Cup above his head for the second straight season. He wearsa ring from the Penguins' Cup win last year, and in 1984 he won theVezina Trophy as hockey's top goaltender and the Calder Trophy as theNHL's Rookie of the ...
Rocket Man remains in his own little orbit
Jun 01, 1992; ... SEATTLE -- He didn't get to the Kingdome until an hour and 15minutes before gametime. The Red Sox locker room was practicallyempty when Roger Clemens walked in and started putting on hisuniform. We were reminded of a comment Mike Boddicker made to former Orioleteammates ...
High-flying Rocket Man is in his own orbit
Jun 01, 1992; ...SEATTLE -- He's like a high-priced consultant. Every fifthday he swoops in to put things back in order.Roger Clemens didn't get to the Kingdome until an hour and 15minutes before last night's game. The Red Sox locker room waspractically empty when Clemens walked in and ...
Batterers: common characteristics
Jun 01, 1992; ... NEXT: Possible solutions to domestic violence. The image is still sharp 23 years later, a moment of fright andfractured innocence in a little boy's life. The cocktail party wasover, the guests had gone. His parents were alone with their angry,drunken words. Next came ...
John F. Donovan, 81 Was accountant for phone firm
Jun 01, 1992 ... John Francis Donovan, a retired accountant for New EnglandTelephone Co., died Saturday in Carney Hospital after a long illness.He was 81 and lived in Milton. Mr. Donovan was born in Cambridge and graduated from TuftsUniversity in 1934. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during ...
From playground to playwright
Jun 01, 1992; ... When he was a kid growing up in a fatherless household inCambridge's gritty Walden Square housing project, Randall Dottin sayshe and his friends often tried to sneak a game on Harvard Universitybasketball courts. "But we'd always get thrown out." A sophomore at Dartmouth College, ...
Docktor Pet Holdings selects its new CEO
Jun 01, 1992; ... Terry Smith, the former chief executive of Laura Ashley, NorthAmerica, has been named president and chief executive of Docktor PetHoldings Ltd., a chain of pet and pet supply stores based inWilmington. The corporate parent of Docktor Pet went into Chapter 11bankruptcy ...
TRAP SHOOT --
Jun 01, 1992 ... Lobsterman Jeff Bolster of Marshfield rows a trap-laden ...
CRUNCH TIME --
Jun 01, 1992 ...Chris Pinental (left) and Joe Bettenzourt separate buns at theGold Medal Bakery plant in Fall ...
Saving China from itself
Jun 01, 1992 ... In its none-too-delicate attempt to balance a liberalizedeconomy with hardline politics, China has saddled itself with acommitment to build the socially irresponsible and environmentallydisastrous Three Gorges Dam. India was on the verge of making the same mistake until ...
Beyond the Fan Pier
Jun 01, 1992 ... The settlement of the legal dispute between restaurateurAnthony Athanas and his former partners in a proposed Fan Pier/Pier 4development focuses attention on the impact that the proposed federalcourthouse will have on that area. Under the settlement, HBC Associates -- Boston ...
A phone call from on high
Jun 01, 1992; ... "Hello? Is Bella English there?" "This is she." "Well, this is God." "Yeah, right. And I'm Mother Teresa." "No, really. It's me, God." "Look, you got the wrong number. You want Jerry Williams. Hetalks to nuts for a living. I gotta go." "Now ...
Madison Park miscommunication
Jun 01, 1992 ... School, city and business officials were caught by surpriselast week when their press conference to announce a plan forvocational education was disrupted by student protesters. Althoughthe students were acting largely on misinformation that their schoolwould become an exam school, ...
Frank Fiorentino, 80 Was Needham resident
Jun 01, 1992 ... Frank Fiorentino, a retired maintenance worker for GloverMemorial Hospital in Needham, died of a heart attack Saturday at thehospital. He was 80 and lived in Needham. Born in Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Fiorentino had lived in Needham for 70years. He had been a truck driver with ...
Walter Grossmann, was historian, director of UMass-Boston libraries
Jun 01, 1992 ... Walter Grossmann, 73, former professor emeritus at theUniversity of Massachusetts in Boston, died Friday at his home inConway. He had retired from UMass-Boston in 1987. A university librarian, historian and author, Mr. Grossman wasdirector of libraries of UMass-Boston from 1969 ...
Weld associates find links can mean profits on outside
Jun 01, 1992; ... The departure of Gov. Weld's top political aide to head aprivate consulting business has brought into focus how some closelyconnected Weld associates are, directly or indirectly, making use oftheir administration connections. What is developing around the Weld administration ...
Rio children disappear for summit
Jun 01, 1992; ... RIO DE JANEIRO -- Where are the children? Visitors to this week's Earth Summit have been asking thatquestion. A large percentage of the thousands of unattended childrenwho normally roam Rio's streets have suddenly disappeared, creatingrumors that security forces have moved them or ...
Great Woods crowd cool to red-hot James Brown
Jun 01, 1992; ... KISS 13th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT At: Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts Saturday. By 10 Saturday night, the audience at Great Woods consisted ofonly the most die-hard rhythm junkies. Sunburned, windblown, stuffedwith junk food and slathered with tanning oil, only ...
After 40 years, Lannom's as masterful as ever
Jun 01, 1992; ... THE MASTERWORKS CHORALE Allen Lannom, artistic director At: Sanders Theater Saturday night There was only a six-line notice tucked in the back of theprogram for Saturday night's concert closing the season of theMasterworks Chorale that the event also ...
Family, friends recall someone who made `life sparkle'
Jun 01, 1992; ... George Lardner Jr. sat yesterday in the Brookline apartment ofhis slain daughter Kristin, looking at her handmade jewelry andreplaying in his mind their last conversation. They had talked by telephone Friday of mundane things -- her rent,her bills -- but before Kristin hung up ...
Robert L. Lee Jr. Retired executive with Hancock
Jun 01, 1992 ... Robert L. Lee Jr., an executive with the John Hancock InsuranceCo. in Boston for many years, died at Glover Memorial Hospital inNeedham yesterday. He was 73 and a resident of Needham for 27 years. Born in Everett, Mr. Lee served in the Army during World War IIand later ...
School board slaps Doherty in letter
Jun 01, 1992; ... The heated exchange between Boston Teachers Union presidentEdward Doherty and the Boston School Committee got even hotteryesterday when the board's vice chairman sent an angry letter toDoherty accusing the union chief of "outrageous behavior" that is"fostering a climate of distrust ...
Locke says he opposes birth-control abortion
Jun 01, 1992; ... The Massachusetts Senate Republican leader, David H. Locke ofWellesley, who for years has described himself as "somewhere in themiddle" on abortion rights, said yesterday he opposes abortion forbirth control, a position that would ban the vast majority ofabortions. "I will not ...
Digging in to take a few cuts
Jun 01, 1992; ... The Disoriented Express, opening his wallet freely, offers totake the Red Sox to the Cape and buy each player $100 worth of swingsat one of those automated batting cages of Route 28. Clyde and Michael going head-to-head, guarding each other, forseven games is a treat we've been ...
Spunky, sassy -- hey, hey, they're the Mekons
Jun 01, 1992; ... THE MEKONS At: T. T. the Bear's Place with Band of Susans, Friday night. CAMBRIDGE -- The Mekons have always had a wry attitude abouttheir outsider status and their sometimes sorry plight in themarketplace: that plight involving much critical acclaim, ...
UNDER FIRE:
Jun 01, 1992 ... STORY IN CAPTION The character Cyber-Jobe (Jeff Fahey) in a ...
Lawnmower lawsuit
Jun 01, 1992; ... Horror writer Stephen King is suing the producers anddistributors of "The Lawnmower Man," saying the film had virtuallynothing to do with his short story of the same name. Aside from thetitle and one brief scene, the film "bore no meaningful resemblance"to the story he published in ...
Richard O'Flaherty, 70 Former assessor in Brockton
Jun 01, 1992 ... Richard E. O'Flaherty, 70, of Brockton, a retired chairman ofthe board of assessors in Brockton, died of cancer yesterday at hishome. Born in Boston, Mr. O'Flaherty lived in Roslindale. He graduatedfrom Boston College High School and Holy Cross College in 1947 with ...
A bad call on otherwise fair coverage of ex-priest
Jun 01, 1992; ... Cardinal Bernard F. Law's calling down God's power on theGlobe for reporting about sexual abuses allegedly committed by formerpriest James R. Porter has created more heat than light on thecoverage of a tragic story. The Globe's handling has not beenperfect, but there's no doubt the ...
Clinton holds best arms in a war of words
Jun 01, 1992; ...The 75th birthday of John F. Kennedy and a new book by GarryWills on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address have combined to ignite abeacon of hope on this darkling plain of an election year: wordsstill count. Kennedy's rhetoric lingers in the tribal memory because of his ownintellect's ...
Gays, lesbians also feel domestic violence
Jun 01, 1992; ... Women in heterosexual relationships are not the only victims ofdomestic violence. Gay men and lesbians are also victims, and their plight is onlybeginning to be acknowledged. And men in heterosexual relationshipsare also abused by women, although the violence is far less ...
Parcells may need bypass
Jun 01, 1992; ... Bill Parcells, who won two Super Bowls as coach of the New YorkGiants, is expected to undergo heart bypass surgery tomorrow atTemple University Hospital in Philadelphia. Parcells has undergone three nonsurgical procedures in the lasteight months to reopen one of the arteries in ...
`Suitability' and other notes of caution
Jun 01, 1992; ...People meeting with a stockbroker or financial adviser willprobably not hear a very important word during the conversation.The word is "suitability." That's the test that's applied to an investment when it's sold toa particular investor. For example, $10,000 invested in an oil ...
The focus shifts for probers of House post office Stamps-for-cash swaps alleged
Jun 01, 1992; ... WASHINGTON -- A flurry of subpoenas, the granting of immunity toa key witness and some tantalizing leaks in recent days signal thatfederal prosecutors investigating the House post office scandal haveshifted the focus of their probe from a few patronage appointees toHouse members ...
Throng calls for ouster of Yugoslavs
Jun 01, 1992; ... BELGRADE -- Tens of thousands of Serbians and Montenegrinsmarched through the streets of the Yugoslav capital yesterday callingfor an end to the Balkan war and the ouster of the federalgovernment. And in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, warring factions agreed toa new ...
Wife, mom, rabbi Her life experience works for her temple
Jun 01, 1992; ...BROOKLINE -- When Emily Ann Gopen was 5, her orthodox Jewishgrandfather asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. "Anun," she replied. "My grandfather jumped up and went running to my liberal Jewishmother and told her, `I told you you should keep a kosher home! Yousee ...
Buoyed by their organization's extra efforts, Latin players now find themselves . . . At home on the Rangers
Jun 01, 1992; ... Texas has America's team after all. But these are the '90s, and it's a different team and a differentAmerica. The Texas Rangers, the team of Nolan Ryan, is also the team ofRuben Sierra, Ivan Rodriguez, Dickie Thon, Juan Gonzalez, Edwin Nunezand Jose Guzman, from Puerto Rico; ...
Mayoral in position to help Texas Hispanics
Jun 01, 1992; ... Luis Rodriguez Mayoral tugs at his tie and straightens, again,his blue blazer. Bold, with glasses, a soft round face, a shydemeanor and whiter-than-white skin, he looks hopelessly out of placein the clubhouse. First impressions suggest someone who spends hisdays in a windowless ...
Summit goal has daunting barriers
Jun 01, 1992; ... Second in a series NEXT: Signs of hope From the day in 1987 when a panel of world leaders issued anurgent call to halt Earth's plunge toward an increasingly ominousenvironmental future, it took five years to get to where we are today-- the eve of an unprecedented ...
George H. M. Rountree Retired insurance executive, 72
Jun 01, 1992 ... George H. M. Rountree of Exeter, N.H., retired regional vicepresident of the Travelers Insurance Co., died of lung cancer Fridayat the Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H. He was 72. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Rountree graduated from The ChoateSchool in Wallingford, Conn. in 1936 ...
Frank Sawyer, was Avis chairman, owner of Checker Taxi Co.; at 97
Jun 01, 1992 ... Frank Sawyer, 97, former chairman of Avis International, ownerof Checker Taxi Co. of Boston, and a noted philanthropist, diedSaturday at his home in Chestnut Hill after a brief illness. Like many young men of his time, Mr. Sawyer had limited formalschooling and was largely ...
Serbs say sanctions will only add to misery
Jun 01, 1992; ... BELGRADE -- Serbians, already reeling from inflation, decliningemployment and a chaotic currency system brought on by the Balkanwar, are bracing for a new hardship: the shock of sanctions imposedby the United Nations. And while they feel Serbia -- the largest and most populous ...
Tougher penalty sought for child abuse
Jun 01, 1992; ... LYNN -- John Cavallaro, a 30-year-old Everett man, wasconvicted April 16 for assaulting his 6-month-old stepdaughter,shaking her so violently that blood vessels in her brain wereruptured. The attack left the infant with permanent brain damagethat will leave her in a vegetative state ...
Psychiatrists analyze the treatment they get in movies
Jun 01, 1992; ... Psychiatrist, heal thyself. That seems to be the trendy twist of a spate of recent andupcoming films that feature therapists who themselves are manifestlyin need of serious couch time. Some of these shrinks are murderous,others merely manipulative. Some seem like moral ciphers, ...
It took a while, but Clark finally hitting his stride
Jun 01, 1992; ...SEATTLE -- Every so often it looks like Jack Clark is turning thecorner. And most often he doesn't. But the last two days Clark has stung the ball with a consistencythat leads one to believe that maybe, just maybe, he has turned thecorner. Clark went 2 for 4 and knocked in three ...
Clemens, Sox put down Mariners
Jun 01, 1992; ... SEATTLE -- They evidently have found the remedy for theirhitting problems: take no batting practice and pelt the opposingstarting pitcher with a line drive, forcing him out of the game. The Red Sox ended their two-game losing streak and hitting slumplast night with a 7-1 win ...
Estate-tax battle now moves to state Senate
Jun 01, 1992; ... The Massachusetts death tax is still alive despite an overhaulpassed by the House last week, according to estate planners andlawyers who argued for a complete repeal of the tax. The repeal proponents, who contend that the Massachusetts estatetax encourages wealthy retirees to ...
Thomas foes bungled their cause, book says
Jun 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy knew about Anita Hill'sexplosive allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas,the Supreme Court nominee, weeks before they became public last fallbut decided that his staff should not pursue them because ofembarrassment over his own ...