Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when former 15th-round draft pick Willie Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Green Bay wing, he chose Eddie Robinson to introduce him at the ceremonies. Davis had a sense that his Packer coach, the late Vince Lombardi, was present too in Robinson. "They were both tough disciplinarians," he says, "with soft human sides. They made football a lesson of life. Maybe some of the problems in the game now-you know, drugs-are rooted in the fact that you don't hear coaches described that way much any more...
...introductory campus Democratic Club meeting last week, members were also being wooed. Recruiters for Michael S. Dukakis, who is trying to recover the Bay State governor ship, as well as representatives of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Rep. Barney Frank '61 all showed up to sell students on their boss's campaign...
...prices--in. And there's no doubt that many landlords are unscrupulous enough to use arson to chase residents out. An extreme instance of such tactics was the 1979-80 string of condo conversions in already-high-rent areas, which was apparently responsible for a fourfold increase in Back Bay's arson rate, scaring off many renters who had resisted conversion...
...remember is that when "richer, professional people" move into Jamaica Plain or the South End, someone else has to leave. And though White may see South Boston and Mattapan as "whipped neighborhoods," at least they've been home for people who couldn't afford Back Bay or the suburbs...
...stadium concessionaires, innkeepers, restaurateurs and airlines shudder at the thought. In Green Bay, Wis., where it is a little early in the year for shuddering, the loss is most telling and most personal. Green Bay (pop. 89,000) is the smallest true N.F.L. city, and the Packers are the property of 1,700 Wisconsin stockholders who kept the team from failing in the 1950s by buying stock at $25 a share. Mayor Samuel Halloin notes with pride and pain, "This is not a situation where a few wealthy individuals own the team." For every game canceled in Green Bay (four...