The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1995:
5-7 OILERS ARE YOUR BEST BET . . . . . . BECAUSE THEY'RE 9-3 VS. THE POINT SPREAD
Dec 01, 1995; ... The best team in the NFL this season, for betting purposes, hasbeen the Oilers. Houston, though 5-7 in the league standings, is 9-3in the point- spread standings. %EC%What's unusual about the Oilers' success against thenumber is that the three games in which they failed to ...
`Street blimps' push Swatches around Hub
Dec 01, 1995; ... They're called "street blimps," and, in Boston, they're sellingSwatches. Simply put, a street blimp is a mobile billboard towed by a truck.Reminiscent of the sound trucks politicians once used to cruise wardsto get out the vote, the blimps' purpose is to catch the attention ...
Angels inspire AIDS benefit `Paper Prayers'
Dec 01, 1995; ... The most ambitious effort by a Boston-area visual artsorganization to mark today's World AIDS Day is from a commercialgallery -- Howard Yezerski, at 11 Newbury St. -- which for the pastsix years has devoted its space to "Paper Prayers," a fund-raiserthat has raised almost $75,000 for ...
`Angels' returns with even more fire and fury
Dec 01, 1995; ... ANGELS IN AMERICA A play in two parts by Tony Kushner Directed by Michael Mayer. Costumes, Michael Krass. Set, David Gallo. Lighting, Brian MacDevitt. Sound design, Rob Milburn At: the Colonial Theatre, Tuesday and Wednesday ...
Robert Armstrong, 87 Retired mosquito control officer
Dec 01, 1995 ... Robert L. Armstrong Sr. of Westford, retired superintendent of theEast Middlesex County Mosquito Control Project, died of heart failureSunday in St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton. He was 87. Mr. Armstrong was born in Sandwich. He earned a bachelor's degreein entomology at ...
`Tempest' tries hard, falls short
Dec 01, 1995; ... THE TEMPEST Play in five acts by William Shakespeare Directed by Ron Daniels. Set, John Conklin. Lighting, Chris Parry. Costumes, Gabriel Berry. Music and sound, Bruce Odland At: the American Repertory Theatre at the Loeb Center, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1995 ...Q. Recently I found a $100 Confederate bill, dated Nov. 20, 1862,and numbered 65798. The inscription reads: "$100.00 with interest attwo cents per day." Does it have any value? J.A., FranklinA. When both sides in the Civil War found themselves short of gold,silver and copper, they ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1995 ...Q. What's the latest on actor Dustin Hoffman? J.E., SomervilleA. He's filming a new movie, "Sleepers," based on the much-disputedbook by Lorenzo Carcaterra about four New York kids who are sexuallyviolated in reform school, murder one of the abusive guards later ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1995 ...Q. Are there any cellular telephones for people who use hearingaids? D.J., SherbornA. Yes. According to the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf andHard of Hearing, a Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System willhelp hard-of-hearing persons who have cellular ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1995 ...Q. What's the penalty in Massachusetts for tampering with anautomobile's odometer? R.C., BostonA. Tampering or turning back an odometer carries both criminal andcivil penalties under ...
ASK THE GLOBE / THE ADDRESS BOOK
Dec 01, 1995 ... For R.C., Wenham -- Leonard Nimoy, c/o The Gersh Agency, P.O. Box5617, Beverly Hills, CA 90210For M.C., Abington -- Henry Winkler, c/o International ...
HONORED
Dec 01, 1995 ... Michael Lehane (left), senior partner, Murphy, Hesse, Toomey &Lehane; John Phinney, president, United Food & Commercial WorkersLocal 1445; Theodore Brodie, president, New ...
Quincy students earn award for efforts
Dec 01, 1995; ...Quincy eighth-grader Amy Papile says her classmates at the BroadMeadows Middle School have been taught to react to injustice "whetherit's across the street or across the world." The lesson was well learned, as evidenced by theiraccomplishments since a 12-year-old Pakistani boy ...
Makeover works wonders for `Nutcracker'
Dec 01, 1995; ... THE NUTCRACKER Performed by Boston Ballet At: The Wang Center through Dec. 31 The first clue that there's anything different in Boston Ballet's"Nutcracker" this year comes even before the curtain goes up: Sixminiature gilt-and-velvet opera boxes have been ...
Eagles humble Louisville
Dec 01, 1995; ... While the rest of Boston College's student body may not beginsemester finals for 11 days, the basketball team aced its first majortest by routing No. 18 Louisville, 81-67, last night before arollicking crowd of 7,328 at Conte Forum."A lot of people on the team thought it was a ...
In Belfast, a study in balance President takes pains to demonstrate evenhandedness
Dec 01, 1995; ... BELFAST -- Violet Clarke thought yesterday morning would be slowat her grocery shop. After all, the police had sealed off much ofthe Shankill Road along which President Clinton's motorcade wouldpass. And so she was surprised when a big fellow with an accent that wasdecidedly not ...
Does he like her as more than just a friend?
Dec 01, 1995 ... Dear Beth:I've liked this guy for about a year now, and lately we startedto be good friends. He showed all the signs of liking me, asked meif I needed a hug or a shoulder to cry on. We'd always laugh a lotwhen we were together.But at a party one of my friends told him ...
Magellan manager has cooled on Micron
Dec 01, 1995 ... Jeffrey Vinik, the influential manager of the Fidelity Magellanmutual fund, has been publicly bullish on one of his big technologyholdings, Micron Technology Inc., but has been quietly selling mostof his stake in the company, according to confidential Fidelitytrading data obtained by ...
Rite Aid pays $1.8b for Revco drug stores
Dec 01, 1995; ...Rite Aid Corp. of Camp Hill, Pa., said it will acquire RevcoD.S. Inc. for $1.8 billion in cash and stock, strengthening RiteAid's position as the nation's largest drugstore chain. The buy,while almost doubling Rite Aid's sales and drugstores, will alsoallow the company to better ...
SEC charges broker lied to bond investors
Dec 01, 1995; ...The Securities and Exchange Commission charged aMassachusetts-based broker with defrauding investors through the saleof securities sold under the guise that they were officiallysecuritized municipal leases. Robert Gersh of Burlington, and two ofhis wholly controlled corporate entities, ...
Mass. Index: more gain
Dec 01, 1995; ...Massachusetts stocks rose for the fifth day, climbing to athree-month high, led by CMG Information Services Inc. and CascadeCommunications Corp. The Bloomberg Massachusetts Index rose 0.89 to136.42, its highest close in three months. Wilmington-based CMGInformation closed up 4 ...
Endogen expands pact
Dec 01, 1995 ...Endogen Inc. expanded a product supply and marketing agreementwith Amersham International PLC. In a press release, Cambridge-basedEndogen said the original agreement was for Endogen's mouse cytokinetest kits. The pact was expanded to cover human cytokine test ...
A warrior with the JDL who gave up his sword
Dec 01, 1995; ... MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH EXTREMIST An American Story By Yossi Klein Halevi, Little, Brown, 248 pp., $22.95 Yossi Klein Halevi gives a wonderful, harrowing account of hisyears in and around the street-fighting Jewish Defense League ofBrooklyn. If you want to ...
Vanguard's Bogle-to-Brennan plan hits bump
Dec 01, 1995; ... For years conventional wisdom predicted John Brennan would bewhere he is today, about to take over the Vanguard Group's $176billion mutual fund business. But the smooth transition plan has hita bump. Brennan, a Winchester native, is taking the title of chiefexecutive 14 years ...
Many-sided boxes Petty and Cocker collections go beyond the hits
Dec 01, 1995; ...It's boxed-set season again -- and two of the best this fall arefrom Tom Petty and Joe Cocker. They're both seasoned road warriorsand unbridled singers whose idols date back to the dawn of rock 'n'roll. Petty's all-time favorite is Elvis Presley, while Cocker'smain man is Ray Charles ....
Penguins show Bruins who's boss Lemieux gets four goals to spark romp
Dec 01, 1995; ...It was everything they feared and more. On Wednesday, Bruinspresident/general manager Harry Sinden said no team could stop MarioLemieux but could only hope to contain him the way NBA opponents tryto contain Michael Jordan. Others were hoping he'd come into the FleetCenter and ...
Spano conducts iridescent `Spell' by Druckman
Dec 01, 1995; ... BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Robert Spano, guest conductor At: Symphony Hall last night (repeats this afternoon and tomorrow night) Last night Robert Spano became the first former assistantconductor to return to conduct his own subscription concerts at ...
J. Frank Burke, 92 Was president of Fanny Farmer
Dec 01, 1995 ... J. Frank Burke, retired president of Fanny Farmer Candy ShopsInc., died Tuesday in his home in Concord. He was 92. Mr. Burke was born in Toronto and began his 50-year career withFanny Farmer as a stock clerk in Rochester, N.Y. He became presidentin 1955. An outstanding ...
Northern exposure US investors see instability
Dec 01, 1995; ... Al Capone is said to have once defended himself againstcross-border bootlegging charges by telling a grand jury, "I don'teven know what street Canada's on." But what Capone -- and a long line of pundits -- called boring,investors called a safe bet. The referendum fight in ...
Some Democrats hope Cellucci will hurt Weld's Senate chances
Dec 01, 1995; ...Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci's name will not appear on the 1996ballot, but he could become a third player in the vigorous contestbetween Gov. William F. Weld and US Sen. John F. Kerry. In choosing whether to elevate Weld to the Senate, voters wouldalso be deciding whether to elevate ...
Fab Four are still the top of the pops
Dec 01, 1995; ... Psssst: Want to know what you're getting in your stocking thisyear? Odds are that it's "The Beatles Anthology, Vol. 1," the doubleCD that's the aural equivalent of a fat coffee-table picture book.The Beatles dislodged Alanis Morissette from her perch atop the albumcharts, although Ms ....
Citizens, First NH in merger talks Deal would put Fish closer to $20b asset goal by '99
Dec 01, 1995; ... Citizens Financial Group Inc. of Providence, is in merger talkswith New Hampshire's biggest bank, First NH Bank, the companies saidyesterday. Citizens, which is owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, and First NHBank, a subsidiary of the Bank of Ireland, confirmed the negotiationsin ...
Ozawa adds two to BSO
Dec 01, 1995; ...Seiji Ozawa has made two new appointments to the membership ofthe Boston Symphony Orchestra, Scott Andrews, second clarinet, andMark McEwen, second oboe. Andrews, a graduate of the New England Conservatory, has playedwith the New England Chamber Orchestra, the Gardner ...
Clinton exhorts Ulster hosts to `stand firm against terror'
Dec 01, 1995; ... BELFAST -- President Clinton became the first US president tovisit Northern Ireland yesterday, promising the peacemakers in thisland of deadly grudges that the United States will join them and wagepeace "with a warrior's resolve" against the politics of terror. Touting the ...
Radja is again demonstrating he's an early riser
Dec 01, 1995; ...WALTHAM -- Acie Earl was Mr. October. Dino Radja is Mr.November. Yesterday, the last day of the next-to-last month, the Celticspublic relations unit prepared nominations for Eric Williams (Rookieof the Month) and Radja (Player of the Month). Radja has no shot.But what he does ...
Young drinkers vex Cohasset Parents criticized for not responding to problem
Dec 01, 1995; ... COHASSET -- Convinced that the town was turning a blind eye toteen-age drinking, Craig Muir threatened to train a video camera onpartying youths and run the tape on local cable television. The threat was largely tongue-in-cheek, born out of thefrustration Muir and other members of ...
Minutemen are building with Mallen
Dec 01, 1995; ... There were reports in the late 1960s that a hockey rink was on theplanning boards at the University of Massachusetts, but but not untilthis decade did the Mullins Center become a reality. A luxuriousone. The main rink seats 8,389, and the adjacent Olympic-sizedpractice rink would be a ...
Weld fund-raiser in the clear Judge rejects charges against Peter Cook; AG to appeal
Dec 01, 1995; ... Citing procedural errors, a Norfolk Superior Court judge hasthrown out campaign finance indictments against Peter Cook, afund-raiser for Gov. Weld and Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci who had beenaccused of illegally funneling $16,000 to their 1990 campaign. Attorney General Scott ...
CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1995 ...EDITOR'S NOTE: In her Metro/Region column on Wednesday, EileenMcNamara recounted the ordeal of two Wellesley women who had beensubjected to obscene telephone calls from Stephen Reynolds ofReynolds Electric Co. in Wellesley, and noted that one of the womenhas filed suit ...
Wrongs of Wright Neither the golf analyst nor his alleged remark has faded away
Dec 01, 1995; ...When you open your mouth after you've been drinking, bad thingscan occur. Consider the example of CBS golf analyst Ben Wright, whowas called a flat-out liar in a headline in this week's SportsIllustrated for his denial that he had said, among other unpleasantthings, that lesbians were ...
`Guard' rails against spiritual violence
Dec 01, 1995; ... THE CROSSING GUARD Directed and written by: Sean Penn Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright At: Nickelodeon, suburbs Rated: R (sexuality and strong language) Sean Penn isn't one to do things the easy ...
`I Am Cuba': gorgeously filmed propaganda
Dec 01, 1995; ... I AM CUBA Directed by: Mikhail Kalatozov Written by: Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Enrique Pineda Barnet Starring: Luz Maria Collazo, Jose Gallardo, Raul Garcia At: Coolidge Corner Theatre Unrated. In Spanish and English with Russian voiceover ...
Now he's most super as inspiration to all
Dec 01, 1995; ... It's about something more than hockey now, more than goals (therewere four last night), assists and penalty minutes. Mario Lemieux, the best hockey player in the world, arrives at anew rink and he's introduced to a man who beat Hodgkin's disease.Turns out Mario sent him a letter of ...
Sweeps month: a news diary
Dec 01, 1995; ... Some things can be taken for granted in a sweeps month. Most ofall, you can count on Boston's three biggest network affiliates tocourt viewers aggressively. After all, the ratings will make orbreak their bottom lines over the next three months, till anothersweeps period comes ...
Study suggests Mediterranean diet may be key to longevity
Dec 01, 1995; ...The Mediterranean diet -- consisting of lots of fruits,vegetables and legumes, and just a little saturated fat and meat --may be the key not only to a healthier life, but also to a longerone, a new Harvard study suggests. The study, to be published tomorrow in the British ...
CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1995 ...CORRECTION: The obituary yesterday of Joseph M. Donahue, adentist from Milton, had a mistake in listing the ...
Plan to give free use of TV airwaves fought
Dec 01, 1995; ...WASHINGTON -- While aiming to cut Medicare costs and balance thebudget, Congress is poised to offer a valuable gift to televisionbroadcasters: free licenses to use the public airwaves that could beworth as much as $70 billion, enough to run the departments ofJustice, State and Commerce ...
Relentless virus
Dec 01, 1995 ... Nearly 15 years into the AIDS pandemic almost everything about theissue seems tired out except for the virus itself. In 1994 AIDSbecame the leading cause of death among Americans aged 25 to 44, yeta certain complacency has set in that people have gotten the messageabout AIDS prevention ...
The movement at midlife
Dec 01, 1995 ... Civil rights activism is 40 years old today, and the movement isin a midlife crisis. Many of those dedicated to racial equality aresearching for new themes and programs to achieve that goal even asthe tide of public opinion turns against them. When Rosa Parks made her courageous ...
Relief on track
Dec 01, 1995 ... Anyone trying to get to Lantana's function hall in Randolph fromthe South Shore yesterday morning to hear Gov. Weld's call forrestorating the Greenbush commuter rail line got stuck in all thereasons that train is so desperately needed. Gridlock, exhaust fumesand frustration created a ...
Accord at Dayton uncovers European irritation at US Resentment festers at new US role
Dec 01, 1995; ... BERLIN -- The Germans say the US-brokered Bosnian peace accord isunjust because it divides the country. French officials say theaccord does not do enough to protect the rebel Bosnian Serbs who willstay in Sarajevo. And British officials are beginning to say that one year of ...
NOTE TO READERS
Dec 01, 1995 ... Because of production considerations, today's Business report isnot a ...
PASSING PAPERS
Dec 01, 1995 ... Shawmut National Corp. chairman Joel Alvord and Fleet FinancialGroup chairman Terrence Murray sign documents to ...
WATER WALL
Dec 01, 1995 ...Volunteers enlarge a sandbag wall along the Skagit Riveryesterday in Mount Vernon, ...
Rev. William Flynn, 75 Ex-pastor of Rockland parish
Dec 01, 1995 ... Rev. William C. Flynn of Weymouth, former pastor of Holy FamilyChurch in Rockland and senior priest in residence at Sacred HeartChurch in Weymouth, died Wednesday in Quincy Hospital. He was 75. Born in Boston, Father Flynn graduated from St. John's Seminary inBrighton and was ...
Father, son sentenced in loan scheme
Dec 01, 1995; ... A father and son were sentenced yesterday for participating in ascheme to cover up mistakes made by a student loan service firm ownedby their family. Nathan S. Gibson, 35, of Belmont, was sentenced to 12 months'incarceration, to be split between home confinement and a ...
Gingrich calls FEC allegations `totally phony' Disclosures could weaken speaker's budget hand
Dec 01, 1995; ... WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich is on the defensive. Documents filed by the Federal Election Commission in US DistrictCourt detail how GOPAC, a political organization founded and once runby Gingrich, secretly funneled more than $250,000 into his reelectioncampaign in 1990. The House ...
Weld approves Greenbush train Construction due to start in '97 on South Shore
Dec 01, 1995; ... RANDOLPH -- After two years of intense conflict in communities onthe South Shore, Gov. Weld yesterday ended the suspense over thecontroversial Greenbush commuter-rail line from Scituate to Braintreeand announced plans to begin construction in 1997. Speaking at a standing-room-only ...
The long road home
Dec 01, 1995 ... Chronology of the Greenbush train line - July 1, 1959 -- Old Colony Railroad, which included theGreenbush line, makes its final run. - 1984 -- Gov. Michael S. Dukakis calls for study of restoringrail service to South Shore. - 1989 -- First environmental impact report ...
Worker battles insurer, system
Dec 01, 1995; ... It was Mark Hudson's job, as a referral assistant for Bay StateHealth Plan, to tell subscribers they would have to changepsychotherapists to keep their mental health coverage -- and wouldonly get a new referral if they gave him detailed accounts of theirpsychological ...
State finds insurers don't redline, urges them to sell in poor areas
Dec 01, 1995; ... An investigation by the state Insurance Division has concludedthat although major Massachusetts homeowners' insurance companies donot compete for business in Roxbury and other lower-income Bostonneighborhoods, their practices do not violate the state'santi-redlining statute. The ...
Following Miles Davis down different roads
Dec 01, 1995; ... MARK ISHAM QUINTET At: Regattabar, first set Wednesday night WALLACE RONEY QUINTET At: Scullers, second set Wednesday night There is great room for variety in the world of jazz -- especiallyif the source is the music of Miles Davis. Here were two ...
America's Then Some Factor
Dec 01, 1995; ...President Clinton put Bosnia on notice that when our soldiers gothere, "America protects its own. Anyone -- anyone -- who takes onour troops will suffer the consequences. We will fight fire withfire, and then some." And then some? Clinton was fine for most of his ...
Kerry confronts a defining issue Senator must sharpen fuzzy image, some analysts say
Dec 01, 1995; ... As Sen. John F. Kerry gears up for the political fight of his lifeagainst Gov. William F. Weld, he enjoys strong popularity withvoters, but observers from both parties said yesterday the affectioncould prove thin because voters know little about who Kerry is orwhat he has done for ...
Build a better lousetrap With humor, determination, Newton mothers go after head lice
Dec 01, 1995; ... NEWTON -- Talk about picky mothers who won't get out of your hair. A group of moms from Zervas Elementary School have launched acampaign against head lice aimed at debunking the myths about theparasites, and getting a laugh out of students. Led by Robin Krieger (who calls ...