The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 1997:
Aerosmith kicks off US tour with a Maine bang
Jul 01, 1997; ... AEROSMITHAt: Maine Entertainment Center,last night OLD ORCHARD BEACH, MAINE -- Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry pausedbefore the first encore. "Back in the U.S.A. It's good to be home!"he said, as a roar erupted from the capacity 12,000 fans who had sungalong lustily during this ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1997 ... Q. When did the English composer Gavin Bryars write the hymn "Jesus'Blood Never Failed Me Yet"? C.M., WeymouthA. In 1971. Born in Goole, England, Bryars studied composition underCyril Ramsey and George Linstadt, but began his professional careeras a bassist. However, he was composing ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1997 ... Q. A memorial in Boston's Post Office Square is named for GeorgeThorndike Angell. Who was he? J.B., ChelseaA. Angell was the founder and first director of the MassachusettsSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose AngellMemorial Hospital was named for him. Angell was born ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
Jul 01, 1997 ... For C.P., Winthrop -- Mother Teresa, Missionaries of Charity, 54AAJC Bose Road, Calcutta, West Bengal, India 700016For D.P., Boston -- George F. Will, The Washington Post WritersGroup, 1150 15th Street NW, ...
ASK THE GLOBE IN SEARCH OF...
Jul 01, 1997 ... Herbert H. Cohen of Salem is looking for Lillian and Clair "Fagel"Goldman of Brookline, daughters of Abe and Ann ...
ARMCHAIR TRAVELER
Jul 01, 1997 ... Maria Rose, a guide with Colette Tours, reads yesterday whilewaiting at Stuart ...
A nation of chumps
Jul 01, 1997; ... If some absolute bum approached you on the street today and askedfor a $49.95 handout, what do you figure your reaction would be?Disgust? Disbelief? OK, what if a convicted rapist or murderer sought the same amountas you sat in your car at an intersection? Same thing? Odds ...
AIDS unlikely to be transmitted during sports
Jul 01, 1997 ... Dear Beth: If a person can get AIDS from a tiny smear of blood on a needle,what about getting exposed during sports? In boxing and hockey,people can get pretty bloody, and blood sometimes gets on anotherplayer. Since you wouldn't know if the kid had AIDS, you wouldn't betrying to ...
O'Connell may wade into free agent pool
Jul 01, 1997; ... The free agent sweepstakes began at midnight last night, and itshould be a very busy summer for clubs looking to sign their preciousGroup 2 (restricted) free agents and others chasing the small pool oftalented unrestricted free agents. The biggest name Group 2's are Colorado's Joe ...
Simple truths from a year on the Cape
Jul 01, 1997; ... A WILD, RANK PLACEOne Year on Cape CodBy David GessnerUniversity Press of New England, 135 pp., illustrated, $19.95 Cape Cod, particularly at this time of year, is a place most of usassociate with the pursuit of leisure, not ghosts. Tourists flock tothis sandy peninsula far more ...
Why Putnam rumors pop up
Jul 01, 1997; ... That was the unusual statement issued yesterday at Marsh &McLennan Cos. in response to the latest rumor about its star moneymanagement subsidiary, Putnam Investments. The current talk was about preliminary and short-livedconversations with J.P. Morgan & Co. about the sale of ...
Detroit executive may direct BSO affairs
Jul 01, 1997; ... The Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to announce theappointment of Mark Volpe to the position of managing director thisweek. Volpe, 39, has been executive director of the Detroit SymphonyOrchestra Hall since 1992. Volpe will succeed Kenneth Haas, whosuffered a major illness last ...
Budget hedges, steps up spending Lawmakers forgo large tax cuts
Jul 01, 1997; ... For young children and their parents, college students and legalimmigrants, the new state budget is full of good news.As for those who thought the state's economic boom provided ahistoric chance to significantly cut tax rates -- Governor William F.Weld foremost among them -- ...
UFO fest is a keepsakes sweepstakes Roswell visitors may claim to see little green men, merchants just want to see green
Jul 01, 1997; ... ROSWELL, N.M. -- It's starship enterprise.For the celebration/convocation known as Roswell UFO Encounter'97, Mario's Restaurant & Lounge is pushing Flyin' Saucer Table Wineat $14 a bottle. Star Child, an all-alien boutique, has UFO-H2O at$3 a liter. The UFO Enigma Museum has ET ...
Pride a satisfying main course for many restaurant celebrants
Jul 01, 1997; ... While the Chinese flag was hoisted over Hong Kong yesterday,more than 100 pairs of hands were raised inside the Lei Jingrestaurant in Boston to applaud the colony's transfer from Britain. As the ceremony was shown live via satellite, the mood insidethis Chinatown restaurant ...
Clinton attends Copley Plaza fund-raiser 750 donors, 100 protesters greet president
Jul 01, 1997; ... President Clinton came to Boston yesterday to attend a $1million fund-raising luncheon of Democratic Party supporters, but hewas also greeted by more than 100 placard-carrying protesters, keptbehind police barriers across the street from the Copley Plaza Hotel.Inside, a ...
Team free to make decisions
Jul 01, 1997; ... The Rick Pitino Reign officially begins today. This is the firstday the NBA allows teams to sign free agents and renounce players.And when it comes to free agents, the Celtics (10 free agents) haveplenty of decisions to make. Pitino, the team's president and coach, already has said ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 1997 ...CORRECTION: Because of an editing error, Sunday's ArtsEtc.switched captions on artwork published with the article about ...
Car-chase defendant, as own attorney, weeps before jury
Jul 01, 1997; ... George Correia has chosen to be his own lawyer in his criminaltrial in Suffolk Superior Court. Yesterday, delivering his closingargument to the jury, he wept. Correia asked the panel to acquit him on 28 criminal chargesstemming from a September 1995 stolen-car chase in downtown ...
TO SERVE AND PROTECT
Jul 01, 1997 ...Racine, Wis., police Officer Chris Dupuis comforts 9-year-oldOrin Thomas on Sunday while rescue workers help Orin's father, JimAshton, ...
Legislature keeps physician profiles
Jul 01, 1997; ... The Legislature yesterday ordered the Weld administration to giveconsumers continued access to disciplinary and malpracticeinformation on the state's 27,000 doctors, even if it means curbingefforts to license and discipline those doctors. The budget approved by the Legislature ...
Joseph P. Dunn Jr., 65 Falmouth attorney; Mass today
Jul 01, 1997 ... A funeral Mass will be said today for Joseph P. Dunn Jr., anattorney in practice for nearly 30 years, who died of cancer Fridayin his home in Falmouth. He was 65. Mr. Dunn, who was sometimes known as "Skip," was born in NewBedford and raised in Rhode Island in Portsmouth and ...
Boxing rules with bite
Jul 01, 1997 ... Mike Tyson's cowardly or crazy decision to bite off a portion ofEvander Holyfield's ear in the third round of their championship boutprovided one more unnecessary proof that professional boxing hasbecome a $100 million variation on a game of three-card monte.Performances like Tyson's ...
A dignified farewell
Jul 01, 1997; ... HONG KONG - Yesterday the sun finally set on the Union Jack. Asthey have done so many times in so many places over the last 50years, the British hauled down their flag for the last time over thecrown colony of Hong Kong with style and dignity. In a sunsetceremony in sheets of rain, the ...
Elsie -- a wow of a cow Beloved bovine's home donated as sanctuary
Jul 01, 1997; ...BROOKFIELD -- She ate one of Hedda Hopper's hats, cavorted withthe Radio City Rockettes, has a star and hoof print on HollywoodBoulevard, and held court in the bridal suite of the Waldorf Astoria. Now Elsie the Cow, who died in 1941, is being remembered again asthe farm where she was ...
The campaign reform gap
Jul 01, 1997 ... Political fund-raising that routinely sells democracy to bigcontributors is bad enough. Equal to it are the contradictionsbetween politicians' words and actions that illustrate why nationalreforms always lose. "The way we pay for elections is broken," President Clinton ...
WORDS TO CHEW ON
Jul 01, 1997 ... Here are some headlines that ran in newspapers across the country:"A Bad Bite for Boxing" -- The News & Observer of Raleigh. "Bite of the Century!" -- Arizona Republic."Reality Bites" -- Times Union of Albany, N.Y."Tyson Subject of Biting Criticism" -- The Baltimore ...
Leaders of 14-union committee accept tentative GE pact Union leaders OK tentative GE pact
Jul 01, 1997; ... Leaders of a 14-union collective bargaining committee have votedto accept a tentative agreement with General Electric Corp., puttingan end to speculation that irate workers might walk off their jobs. GE and its labor unions reached the tentative agreement on newcontracts three ...
GE Capital to acquire car insurer Will pay $950 million for Colonial Penn unit
Jul 01, 1997; ...STAMFORD, Conn. -- General Electric Capital Corp. said it willbuy Leucadia National Corp.'s Colonial Penn automobile insurance unitfor $950 million. The transaction allows GE Capital, a unit of General ElectricCo., to sell auto insurance through direct-marketing campaigns, ...
Excuse for a party has merry-makers front and center
Jul 01, 1997; ... HONG KONG -- Ying Xia marched into the room wearing the olivedrab uniform of the People's Liberation Army, determined to achievehis goal. And almost everyone else in the room was pursuing the samegoal: to get really drunk. All over the city last night, young revelers like Ying ...
Ed Hawley's gone fishin' The fishermen's friend retires after 33 years
Jul 01, 1997; ... Some events really set the way-back machine going. Thirty-twoyears ago I was wandering along upper Washington Street by Raymond'sDepartment Store (where "u bot ur hat," as the ads used to say) andthe Kennedy Butter and Egg store (they made peanut butter right infront of your eyeballs), ...
New firm takes helm of South Shore ferry Harbor Cruises launches operation today
Jul 01, 1997; ...The MBTA hopes to make smooth sailing out of what's been a choppytransfer of power in Hingham, where the popular commuter ferryservice takes its maiden voyage under a new operator this morning. After underbidding the former operator by $1 million a year,Harbor Cruises LLC will ...
An empire ends, a giant expands Hong Kong is passed from Britain to China
Jul 01, 1997; ... Michael Grunwald and David L. Marcus of the Globe staff providedinformation for this report. HONG KONG -- Moments after midnight here today, China's five-starred flag replaced Britain's Union Jack over Hong Kong, marking theeffective end of one empire, the ascendance of a growing ...
Hong Kong is swallowed up
Jul 01, 1997; ...So it is done. For the first time in 59 years, a people livingin political and economic liberty has been transferred, with theacquiescence of the West, to the most brutal tyranny on the planet.Communist China's occupation of Hong Kong yesterday, like NaziGermany's occupation of the ...
Firm may be delayed in Chap. 11 exit Jayhawk to renegotiate payments to creditors
Jul 01, 1997 ...DALLAS -- Jayhawk Acceptance Corp. said it will renegotiatepayments to creditors because of lower-than-expected auto loancollections. The decline in collections could delay the company's exit fromChapter 11 bankruptcy. Jayhawk, which makes car loans to people with poor ...
Flat-out parents can help with homework -- on the fly
Jul 01, 1997; ...If you're a working parent, then you know the drill: Pick up thekids, dash home, make dinner, monitor homework and/or encourage thechildren to stretch their minds and turn off the TV. At a time when two-income households are the norm and thepercentage of single parents has ...
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Jul 01, 1997 ... Four-year-old Graham Beck of Danvers waters his grandmother's newlyplanted ...
George B. Kilborne, 66 Executive, hockey team co-owner
Jul 01, 1997 ...A memorial service will be held today for George B. Kilborne ofOsterville and West Palm Beach, Fla., a former executive with theBessemer Securities Corp. in New York City and former co-owner of thePittsburgh Penguins hockey team. He died Friday in his nephew's homein Osterville. He was ...
Lemon law applied to leased vehicles
Jul 01, 1997 ... The Massachusetts lemon law, which already covers new and usedcars, is extended to leased vehicles as of today, and officials saidanyone who takes a case to arbitration under the law will no longerhave to pay fees ranging from $275 to $325. Under the lemon law, new and leased car ...
Money still talks on Beacon Hill But key legislators deny fund-raisers are linked to how they vote
Jul 01, 1997; ... As chairman of the House Banking Committee, Representative PhilipTravis commands the attention of the state's bankers. Never was that more evident than last Tuesday, when he threw afund-raiser at a Beacon Hill restaurant. It was a tasteful event -- and most fortuitously timed, ...
Names: Nolan turns down Sabres' one-year offer
Jul 01, 1997 ...Ted Nolan, recipient of the Adams Trophy as the NHL's top coachthis season, will not be returning to the Buffalo Sabres, the team heled to the division title. Nolan said new general manager DarcyRegier flew to Nolan's home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, last nightto tell him that the ...
Steiner didn't enjoy view
Jul 01, 1997; ... Charley Steiner is ESPN's boxing expert. He has covered theprofessional fight game for 17 years. He never has seen such a sightas he did Saturday night at the Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield bout. "Tyson's mouth was not the first thing you noticed," Steiner said."It was Tyson's eyes ....
ANCHORED IN HIS WORK
Jul 01, 1997 ... With Nantucket Harbor in the background, Sunny Wood works on ...
Worcester research institute merges into UMass Medical
Jul 01, 1997; ... Beset by fiscal pressures and a decaying physical plant, theWorcester Foundation for Biomedical Research is giving up its 75-acresite -- noteworthy as the place the birth control pill was developed-- and tomorrow becomes part of the nearby University ofMassachusetts Medical ...
AN AVALANCHE OF ALIENS ETs are everywhere in `Men in Black,' and they're a howl
Jul 01, 1997; ... MEN IN BLACKDirected by: Barry SonnenfeldScreenplay by: Ed Solomon (based on a comic book series by LowellCunningham)Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, VincentD'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony ShalhoubAt: Cheri, suburbsRunning time: 98 minutesRated: PG-13 (language ...
Bill watchers wonder which isle it will be
Jul 01, 1997; ... Material from wire services and other sources was used in thiscolumn. We don't know what the gossip is in Jackson Hole, Wyo., but theCape and Islands are buzzing about where in the commonwealthPresident Bill Clinton will spend his vacation this summer. The CapeCod Times last ...
Man hangs self at MBTA station
Jul 01, 1997 ... A 54-year-old man died yesterday morning when he hanged himselffrom a handicapped ramp at the West Roxbury commuter rail station,MBTA officials said. The man, whose name is being ...
Candidate backed by Davis-Mullen
Jul 01, 1997 ... Boston City Councilor at Large Peggy Davis-Mullen yesterday endorseda challenger in this year's race. Davis-Mullen, of South Boston,endorsed Frank Jones, a lawyer from Jamaica Plain who ran sixth inthe at-large race in 1995. That Jones accepted the ...
Allston truck fire burns for 5 hours
Jul 01, 1997 ... Boston firefighters worked five hours last night to contain a firesmoldering in a tractor-trailor parked in the Conrail Train Yard onCambridge Street in Allston. Fire officials say ...
Skydiver dies in Dunstable fall
Jul 01, 1997 ... A 28-year-old male skydiver plunged 13,500 feet to the ground anddied in Dunstable Sunday evening, after his parachute becameentangled with another skydiver's canopy and his reserve parachutefailed to open, police said. The victim dropped from a twin-engineplane sometime between 7:30 ...
Judge rejects O'Brien request
Jul 01, 1997 ... A Middlesex Superior Court judge has rejected a request by lawyersfor Edward S. O'Brien of Somerville to dismiss Lynn District CourtJudge Timothy H. Gailey's ruling that O'Brien, 17, should be triedfor murder in adult court. Judge Joseph A. Grasso Jr. upheldGailey's ruling ...
1 killed, 1 injured in Pepperell crash
Jul 01, 1997 ... PEPPERELL -- A 23-year-old Pepperell man was killed and a passengerin his car was critically injured in a single-car crash Sunday nightthat was likely caused by excessive speed, police said. Ryan McMahonwas thrown from the driver's seat of his car after it hit a tree ...
Norman, Zoeller share stage at Willowbend
Jul 01, 1997; ... MASHPEE -- Greg Norman arrived on Cape Cod shortly before midnightSunday. The Shark was tired, but his game is on course after his winin the St. Jude Classic in Memphis. John Daly never made it toyesterday's sixth Willowbend Children's Charity Pro Am, but FuzzyZoeller, who stayed at ...
Despite decision, Staples' future still seen as bright Analysts say merged firm would have been better; Office Depot outlook less certain
Jul 01, 1997; ... Staples Inc. would have been a better company had it been allowedto merge with Office Depot Inc., say analysts, but they are quick toadd: It will be a pretty good company on its own. "Their business will be fine," said James Stoeffel, an analystwith Smith Barney, echoing what ...
Bad thinking on Medicare
Jul 01, 1997; ...WASHINGTON - For the second Congress in a row, elected pros whoshould know better have violated a fundamental rule of Medicare: Change is good; turmoil is bad. Two years ago, the turmoil was partisan and revolutionary. Itbackfired. This time, it is bipartisan, evolutionary, ...
Same old trick
Jul 01, 1997; ...LAS VEGAS -- The only thing missing from Mike Tyson's performanceyesterday were The Platters singing "Yes, I'm The Great Pretender" inthe background. The con that has been Mike Tyson's life since the days back inBrooklyn, when he would lure old ladies into desolate elevators ...
World Cup outlook: Brazil revving up, US stuck in neutral
Jul 01, 1997; ... WALTHAM -- Brazil has been the center of attention in the soccerworld in recent days, which is as it probably should be for the WorldCup champions. Significantly, there has been little controversy orcharges of corruption, only inspiring displays of skill. Sure, by Brazilian ...
MAESTRO OF CEREMONY
Jul 01, 1997 ...Bruce Ward of Lexington plays the keyboards at the wedding of hisbest friend, ...
Slow sales hit high-tech firms PictureTel mulls layoffs; VideoServer plans charge
Jul 01, 1997; ... Two Massachusetts companies in the videoconferencing equipmentbusiness yesterday warned of flagging sales that will hurt theirbottom lines. PictureTel Corp. of Andover said it is considering layoffs alongwith other cost-cutting measures after a falloff in videoconferencingsystems ...
Jane A. Polley, 72 Of S. Yarmouth; was secretary
Jul 01, 1997 ...Jane A. (Donnelly) Polley of South Yarmouth, a retired executivesecretary for Raytheon Corp., died Thursday in her second home, inHilton Head, S.C. She was 72. Mrs. Polley was born in Newton and attended Boston College. Shewas an executive secretary at Raytheon until her ...
Voices test out Beijing's free-speech pledge
Jul 01, 1997; ... HONG KONG -- The democracy activists have vowed to continuespeaking out. The new rulers have vowed to let them. Yesterday,both sides kept their promises.There were demonstrations all day long, protesting China'simprisonment of political dissidents, the 1989 slaughter ...
Local office vacancy rate drops to 5% Rents up as demand increases, but relief seen for `tight' market
Jul 01, 1997; ... The local office market "cannot get much tighter than it iscurrently and all eyes are looking for relief valves," according to amidyear report from Meredith & Grew. The overall commercial vacancy rate in Greater Boston dropped to 5percent as rents increased to more than $40 per ...
Boston budgets $4m for EMS garages Ambulances will not use vacant bays in 18 fire stations
Jul 01, 1997; ... Amid longstanding disputes between two feuding city agencies, theMenino administration plans to spend more than $4 million to buildnew garages for Emergency Medical Services ambulances even though theFire Department has 18 stations with empty bays to house thevehicles. A senior ...
BOMB SCARE
Jul 01, 1997 ... A Boston firefighter closes off Boylston Street near ArlingtonStreet during rush hour yesterday after police ...
Child-rape defendant held with no bail Judge deems man dangerous
Jul 01, 1997; ... PLYMOUTH -- Paul Sheehan, a Wareham man accused of raping two boyswhile awaiting trial on charges of child rape, was denied bailyesterday when a judge ruled that he was too dangerous to go free. Sheehan, 31, had been free on $1,000 cash bail since he wascharged with raping a young boy ...