The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from May 1997:
Traffic jam snarls four-ball tourney
May 01, 1997; ... Next week's Massachusetts Golf Association's State Four-BallChampionship at Stow Acres CC, as usual, was inundated withapplications. The problem is there are too many qualified teams andnot enough tee times. A total of 192 teams met the criteria, however, 60 teams, withcombined ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1997 ... Q. I have been made custodian of stock given to my minor children bytheir grandparents. For instance, my name is listed as custodianunder the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act of Massachusetts. What aremy duties?R.S., FraminghamA. The Uniform Transfers to Minors Act is set forth in ...
ASK THE GLOBE
May 01, 1997 ... Q. What is the ethnic makeup, by percentages, of Canada? J.J., BurlingtonA. According to Canada's 1991 census, 83.5 percent of the populationwas Canadian-born, a decrease of 0.4 percent from 1981. As one goeswestward from Newfoundland to British ...
Governor exits right on time
May 01, 1997; ... There are, no doubt, several reasons why a sizable percentage ofthis state's population has expressed dismay that Bill Weld decidedto say goodbye to the governor's office and head for Mexico. Mostof them, at least on the surface, probably have to do with politicsand the fact that a lot ...
Daughter may be all talk about kissing
May 01, 1997 ... Dear Beth:My sister-in-law told me that my 13-year-old daughter told her10-year-old son that when she goes to the movie she kisses herboyfriend, who is the same age. She also told him that she almosthad sex at the movies. Should I confront her or never allow her togo to the ...
Staying on the course McMahon wouldn't let blindness derail his passion for the game
May 01, 1997; ...It was February 1983. Bill McMahon was young, a few years out ofHoly Cross, carrying a single-digit handicap, and enjoying a round ofgolf in Florida. However, his world was turned upside down that early morning. He split the fairway with a tee shot, but he immediately ...
Immigrant-aid formula hurts Mass., study says
May 01, 1997; ... WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts will be a big loser under a proposedblock grant formula that is intended to offset the termination ofbenefits to legal immigrants who are elderly and disabled, accordingto a research institute analysis. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorites released a ...
Giant May basket is star of MFA's Art in Bloom fest
May 01, 1997; ... It's May Day and Boston's biggest May basket can be seen outsidethe Museum of Fine Arts today as part of the four-day Art in Bloomfestival. The 12-foot basket on the lawn of the West Wing entranceis filled with sizable branches of flowering cherry, dogwood, andquince felled by the April ...
Spencer band brings punk take to the blues
May 01, 1997; ... Grinnin' and sinnin' all the way to the bank -- or at least tothe nearest Mini Mart -- the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is quietlycreeping out of rock's back alley and into the light. Well, maybe not quietly. The band's latest album, the gloriouslylowbrow "Now I Got Worry," is a ...
Abigail Johnson moves up at Fidelity Promotion as part of shifts by Pozen viewed by some as significant step on road to top of the fund company
May 01, 1997; ... The new chief of Fidelity Investments mutual funds business hassurrounded himself with three freshly promoted investment pros,including boss's daughter Abigail Johnson. Less than two weeks into the job, Robert Pozen yesterday namedJohnson, 35, Robert A. Lawrence, 44, and Richard ...
Bowe retires from boxing Ex-champ will work for HBO
May 01, 1997; ... Riddick Bowe left boxing behind yesterday before boxing did it tohim. The Sweet Science had turned sour for Bowe over the last fewyears. It was a result of the oft-lethal combination of too manywars, too little hard training, too much money, and too many blows tothe head and ...
Wife says courts ignored husband's need for help
May 01, 1997; ... PALMER -- The wife of Christopher Burnett, who is believed to haveshot and killed his mother and stepfather before committing suicideSunday, described her husband this week as a "sensitive and gentleman" who was mentally ill. She said she had tried without success to get him help ...
New TMC head named
May 01, 1997; ... The Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Ellen Highstein tosucceed Richard Ortner as administrator of the Tanglewood MusicCenter. Highstein starts part time during May and by mid-June willbe working full time to prepare for the opening of the TMC in July. Highstein, 52, comes to ...
Carr gets ball rolling He quits as Celtics court Pitino -- Pacers' bid for Bird intensifies
May 01, 1997; ... Two NBA coaching jobs opened up yesterday, and Larry Bird couldhave a say in who fills both. In the wake of M.L. Carr's resignation in Boston and Larry Brown'sin Indiana, Celtics special assistant Bird has an offer from thePacers he may find impossible to reject: more than $4 ...
Some adventurous flights of fusion, served in an eye-catching setting
May 01, 1997; ... RED HERRINGWhere: 1 Columbus Ave., Boston.Telephone: 423-1581.Hours: Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to midnight; Saturday 4 p.m. tomidnight.Good choices: Home-smoked beef brisket sandwich with horseradishslaw, balsamic mayo, red onion and cheddar ($7.50); stir-fried chowfoon noodles ...
First step's a long one: Chelsea Clinton picks Stanford `We'll be all right,' sighs her father, who had hoped college choice would be nearer
May 01, 1997; ... WASHINGTON -- Ending months of speculation and rumor, ChelseaClinton chose Stanford University as her next home, planning to put3,000 miles between her and the iron gates on Pennsylvania Avenue. "Planes run out there and phones work out there. E-mail works outthere, so we'll be all ...
Symposium highlights city's children's week
May 01, 1997; ... A common theme of cooperation and a call for greater communitydevelopment echoed through Faneuil Hall last night as 125 peoplegathered for a symposium on the challenges of childhood development,the capstone event in Mayor Thomas M. Menino's first annual Boston'sChildren Week. The ...
Bottom feeders
May 01, 1997; ... While WebTV people will tell you that the future of the Internetis that box in your living room, a recent survey conducted byComputer Retail Week and the Verity Group indicates that thefirst-time PC buyers market is not dead at all, it is merely sittingout a bargain. About ...
Ready for sail of the century
May 01, 1997; ... Sixty men and women preparing to sail the USS Constitution intothe heart and soul of America this summer formed up for their dailybriefing on the ship's maindeck at 7 a.m. yesterday. There are only 80 days left until the ship's scheduled sail, thefirst in more than a century. The ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 1997 ... CORRECTION: Because of a reporting error, the wrong time was givenfor the beginning of ticket ...
CORRECTION
May 01, 1997 ... Because of a reporting error, an article in the Globe series"Special Education: A System Disabled" on March 30 inaccuratelystated the lower end of the range of private school tuitions. Therange is $18,000, for schools such as the Carroll School, to$183,000. The story also incorrectly said ...
Currency paper maker gets Senate boost Panel's ownership rules decision helps keep rivals of Crane at bay
May 01, 1997; ...WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts lawmakers got a boost yesterday intheir efforts to protect the franchise of a local manufacturer toproduce paper for the nation's currency.The Senate Appropriations Committee failed to include in itsversion of an emergency spending bill a change that ...
Getting crowded out there
May 01, 1997; ... Massachusetts Golf Association executive director Dick Haskellbelieves the huge increase in the number of golfers is not good forthe game. He says the expanding numbers mean higher greens fees,more crowded courses, a slower pace of play, and a plethora of otherproblems. His ...
Gaston needs to finish off a fast break
May 01, 1997; ... Memo to Paul "Thanksdad" Gaston: It's time. You have a chance to make the Celtics a premier teamonce again. Here's the plan. The first thing you must do is find anew job for M.L. Carr. Then you hire Rick Pitino as head coach, hireLarry Bird as director of basketball operations, and ...
Lukas just couldn't stay away Trainer changes his mind, continues Derby streak by entering Deeds Not Words
May 01, 1997; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Trainer D. Wayne Lukas just had to do it. Atthe eleventh hour yesterday, staring at the entry deadline, Lukasblinked and entered a long shot, Deeds Not Words, in Saturday's 123drunning of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. They just couldn'trun one without ...
Developer hoping to build over Pike looks at other sites
May 01, 1997; ... When the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority announced plans lastfall to build a hotel and entertainment center on state land in theBack Bay, Boston city officials fumed and declared they could killthe project. The lead company in the proposed development, Millennium Partners,then ...
Lew Dietz, Maine outdoorsman, wrote `Seal Called Andre'; at 90
May 01, 1997; ...Lew Dietz, who wrote "A Seal Called Andre," died Sunday inPenbay Medical Center, Rockport, Maine. He was 90. Mr. Dietz was the author of more than 20 books and hundreds ofmagazine articles about the people of Maine and their outdooradventures, but is probably best known for the ...
In post-Easter quest for spring taste, a trinity of spots stood out early
May 01, 1997; ... FLORA190 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington641-4481MAISON ROBERT45 School St. Boston227-3370SANDRINE'S8 Holyoke St. Cambridge497-5300 On Easter Sunday every year, my cousin Missy changes her wardrobefrom wools to linens -- with no regard to the weather. Some years,of course, ...
Background profiles on Mass. physicians available on Internet
May 01, 1997; ... Background information on all 27,000 licensed doctors inMassachusetts is now available on the Internet at no cost to users,state officials announced yesterday. Consumers with Internet access can type in the addresswww.docboard.org and search by name for information on any ...
THOMAS YOUNG, WITH ASSISTING ARTISTS CLAIR DE LUNE/SISTER MOON Ocean Recordings
May 01, 1997; ... Thomas Young is a distinguished tenor with an extensive repertoryof difficult modern works; he will be remembered here for his singingof the title role in Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" with the CantataSingers and his portrayal of Elijah Muhammed in scenes from AnthonyDavis's opera about ...
Ionics posts record revenue, profit in first quarter
May 01, 1997 ...Ionics Inc. reported record first-quarter revenues, net income,and earnings per share for the period ended March 31. Revenues of $87.1 million were up 11.9 percent compared to thefirst quarter of 1996, while net income of $7 million and earningsper share of 43 cents were up 14.6 ...
Antismoking guns
May 01, 1997 ...The attorneys general of 23 states and antismoking activists waryof settlement talks with the cigarette industry agree on one thing:Big tobacco is cornered, and an opportunity this good to exactconcessions may not come again. Beyond that, the ertswhile allies inthe tobacco wars split on ...
The talking cure
May 01, 1997 ...With talk shows, small talk, and talk being cheap, it seems as ifpeople ought to be talked out. But when the Dimock Community HealthCenter advertised a women's health forum called "Body and Soul: TheWellness Connection," hundreds of women signed up for this chance totalk. The ...
Judge Ireland for the SJC
May 01, 1997 ...Just eight months ago an intensive search for nominees to theSupreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts produced two exceptionalcandidates: Margaret Marshall, Harvard University's general counseland former president of the Boston Bar Association, and JudgeRoderick L. Ireland of the ...
Lasell's real estate lesson
May 01, 1997 ...The promotional literature for Lasell College in Newton stressesmajor areas of study like education, marketing, physical therapy, andfashion, along with the "connected learning" concept that blendseducational theory and practice. Where the college also excels,however, is in finding ways ...
Vincent Estabrook, 82 Retired from investment firm
May 01, 1997 ... Vincent T. Estabrook of Newton, a retired partner in the Bostoninvestment firm of Standish, Ayer & Wood, died of cancer Sunday atMediplex of Newton. He was 82. Mr. Estabrook was born in Arlington and earned bachelor's andmaster's degrees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
Back home, Fluff is the Maine man, not Tiger
May 01, 1997; ... Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. He may only carry the clubs for the guy who carries the golf worldon his shoulders, but Mike "Fluff" Cowan is the celebrity inFairfield, Maine, not Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. Cowan, 49, was a high school star here, but his ...
Woolly adelgids spell death of eastern hemlocks
May 01, 1997; ...If you own hemlocks, perhaps the most common evergreen trees inour gardens and woods, go out and check them right now. Here's whatyou're looking for: white cottony dots, often in zigzag lines wherethe needles meet the wood on the underside of the flat young twigs. They look ...
Growth rate in US hits 10-year high GDP soars 5.6% as inflation fears fall
May 01, 1997; ... WASHINGTON -- The US economy grew faster in the first three monthsof 1997 than it has in a decade, the government reported yesterdayin news that pushed the stock market through a second-straight day ofeuphoria and forced economists to reconsider the traditional theoriesthey use to ...
A blow for gender equality at age 63? Hardly
May 01, 1997; ...Arceli Keh wasn't doing this for the Guinness Book of Records.As the World's Oldest Mom said after her identity was uncovered: "Iwasn't trying to make history. I just wanted a baby." Nevertheless, when the post-menopausal, pre-Medicare birthannouncement first blasted across front ...
Jockey Stevens named to Hall of Fame
May 01, 1997; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Gary Stevens, who will ride Silver Charm inSaturday's Kentucky Derby, has been elected to the NationalThoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame, it was announced yesterday atChurchill Downs. Joining Stevens will be trainer Phil Johnson, who has won stakesraces with 80 ...
Harshbarger's scenario brightens Poll, Kennedy woes offer campaign a heightened image of plausibility
May 01, 1997; ... Doomed. Quixotic. A hopeless longshot.For many months, Attorney General Scott Harshbarger has heardhis candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor described inthose bleak terms. After all, to get that nomination next year,Harshbarger would have to do what has never ...
Firefighters see role for infrared equipment
May 01, 1997; ... No ghosts ever looked quite so spectral and eerie as did severalBoston Fire Department and MWRA officials yesterday when viewedthrough the latest life-saving device the fire department is getting,a pair of $25,000 fire helmets that let the viewer see through smoke. Actually, the ...
PHOTOS OF MOM
May 01, 1997 ... Forget those mediocre snapshots of Mom and the family you takeeach Mother's Day. Have a professional portrait done -- and not astodgy one. The Boston-based Photographic Resource Center is holding itsfifth annual Mother's Day Portrait Extravaganza on the weekend of May10-11 in ...
Tacky decks, asbestos siding, and radiator gaps
May 01, 1997; ...Q. I want to put a preservative on my deck that will dryproperly and not be tacky. I get a lot of fog and dew in themornings, and because of this moisture, past coats never dried. Whatcan I use?GLORIA DEEG, SharonA. Sometimes a sealer or preservative doesn't dry because it ...
State says 33,000 more children enrolled in health care plans But officials say many stil unaware
May 01, 1997; ... Sarah Zapata can't forget those cash-strapped days when she hadto choose between buying food for all her children or asthma medicinefor just one.But at least she doesn't have to live through those timesanymore. Zapata, an East Boston resident, recently enrolled herchildren ...
For some Israelis, a shoulder to cry on Offering aid to terror victims' kin
May 01, 1997; ...YEMIN ORDE, Israel -- Israel has been gripped in recent days bythe murder of two 23-year-old women hikers near Jerusalem, apparentlyby Palestinian terrorists. But the numbing routine of identifyingthe bodies, searching for clues and wrenching public mourning hasresonated with special ...
An honor long overdue Portrait of state's first black Superior Court judge to be unveiled
May 01, 1997; ...By the age of 5, Edward Gourdin Jr. already admired hisphenomenal father, Edward Orval Gourdin -- Harvard law graduate,Olympic athlete, and a prominent judge. Now 61, the son wonders why it has taken so long for everyone elseto recognize his dad. Finally, it will ...
Federal post reportedly sought for AG Kennedy camp turns attention to Harshbarger
May 01, 1997; ... In his pursuit of a high-level federal appointment, GovernorWilliam F. Weld got a significant lift from an unexpected quarter --Democratic operatives working to clear the political path to theState House for US Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II. Democratic sources told the Globe ...
Kissin keeps the fires banked
May 01, 1997; ... EVGENY KISSIN, pianoin a recital presented by BankBoston Celebrity SeriesAt: Symphony Hall last night Evgeny Kissin looks the part of the romantic poet to perfection.He's as pale as death; he almost never smiles; he seems in anotherworld from the audience. When he approaches ...
Lawrence to spend nothing on schools Quirk in ed reform means state pays bills
May 01, 1997; ... Even as the Lawrence public schools are being challenged by astate audit and allegations of misspending, the state will pick upthe entire tab for their $80 million budget next year. Lawrence will be the only school system in the commonwealth tohave its schools paid for entirely by ...
DAVIS LEAVITT UNBOWED The novelist, still stinging from plagiarism charges over `While England Sleeps,' swings back
May 01, 1997; ... Remember the rah-rah 1980s, when America's obsession with youthfulachievement was particularly mercenary? When 12-year-olds weremaking millions on Wall Street and Brat Packs were taking over themultiplexes and bookstores? It was during that cultural moment, in1982 to be exact, that ...
LOCATION IS EVERYTHING
May 01, 1997 ... Nine-year-old Garrett Lojeck, who set up his lemonade standyesterday on the sidewalk outside Downes Field on Jamaica Road ...
Keeping score around New England He'll play some defense
May 01, 1997; ... - Harwich native Peter Morgan, a touring pro based in Valrico,Fla., will defend his title in the Cape Cod Open June 4-5. Thethree-round tournament, which is played at Olde BarnstableFairgrounds, Blue Rock, and Hyannis GC, includes five competitions:the 54-hole CCO Championship with a pro ...
Blaine Littell, 71 Former correspondent, professor
May 01, 1997 ...Blaine Littell of Stonington, Conn., former correspondent andproducer for CBS, ABC and NBC news and professor of journalism atBoston University, died of emphysema Tuesday in a nursing home inConnecticut. He was 71. Mr. Littell was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, and raised in New ...
New hope for form of liver disease
May 01, 1997; ... For decades, people with a liver disease called primary biliarycirrhosis were told that there was little if any hope of reversingthe illness. The 100,000 Americans with the disease could expect todie of it unless they had a liver transplant. Now, a preliminary study, published in ...
Lizards give evolution another leg to stand on
May 01, 1997; ... Filling a major gap in the evidence for evolution, researchershave documented what appears to be a striking example of the processat work: Lizards that developed shorter legs, better suited to theirnew environment, in the years after their ancestors were released onislands in the ...
Names: Irabu given OK to talk to NY
May 01, 1997 ...Hideki Irabu, the pitcher touted as the Nolan Ryan of Japanesebaseball, was given permission by the Japanese commissioner's officeto begin contract negotiations with the Yankees, who acquired therights to the righthander last week in a trade with the San DiegoPadres. New York agreed to ...
Age-group duo's times in question
May 01, 1997; ... John Murphy's time in the Boston Marathon 10 days ago was thesecond fastest ever recorded by a US runner 60 years or older. Hiswife Suzanne's was eighth best among women 55-59. Both exceededtheir personal bests by at least 12 minutes. Although they'reconsidered quality runners, neither ...
Task force criticizes MBTA on civil rights
May 01, 1997; ... A month after a federal agency documented the MBTA's lack ofcompliance with federal Equal Employment Opportunity rules, an MBTAtask force has released similar findings, giving the MBTA poor gradeson critical civil rights issues. The MBTA Civil Rights Task Force yesterday unveiled ...
Three area scientists win National Medal of Science
May 01, 1997; ... A founding member of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge and twoHarvard faculty were among nine scientists who yesterday were awardedthe National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. The medal, awarded by the National Science Foundation inWashington, went to ...
Sense of control helps stem the rise of anxiety
May 01, 1997; ...A 12-year-old who hears about a knife fight on a schoolbus in thenext town shows good sense when he asks his bus driver if she'll savehim a seat in the first row until he feels safe again. A 10-year-oldwho learns about the hole in the ozone layer and says he wouldn'twant to travel to ...
In Mexico, a look at Weld's future
May 01, 1997; ...MEXICO CITY -- Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld will takeover as US ambassador to Mexico during a "historic period" ofpolitical, economic, and social change in the country, complicated bythe emergence of drug trafficking as a central issue in US-Mexicorelations, the current ...
True blue, with view, in Chelsea
May 01, 1997; ... Cool is the word for Cool Blue's in Chelsea. Here's a spot thatjustifies the phrase on its house T-shirts: "Good food, good music,good times." And a good view, too, since the club/ restaurant islocated in Admiral's Hill Marina, a neat hideaway with a view of theBoston ...
Gomes's `Good Book' draws good deal
May 01, 1997; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in thiscolumn. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, whose surprise bestseller "The Good Book"moves to No. 13 on The New York Times top-tome roster next week, hassigned with Simon & Schuster for his next book, "The Virtuous Life."Gomes moved to S&S ...