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...BEACON HILL. Avanti...
...Maloula's legends concerns Holy Cross Day, which the village celebrates on Sept. 14. In the 4th century, the Roman Emperor Constantine, a convert to Christianity, dispatched his mother Helena to the Holy Land to search for the true cross. He also ordered the lighting of fiery beacons from Jerusalem to Constantinople to flash the joyous news if she should find it. Two of these were placed on either side of Maloula's narrow canyon. In modern times, one beacon has been tended on feast days by Melchites, the other by Greek Orthodox. Today the feast is marked...
...ZIRCON, 298 Beacon St., 354-9242, The Larry Carsman Blues Band, Dec. 13 and 14. The best in blues...
...also was defeated by Beacon Hill, the Business School, and the Drogheda, Ireland Rugby Club...
Over at Linsky's headquarters in the Chateau Garod on Beacon Street, people remained hopeful. Farly in the evening Governor Francis Sargent appeared and told the crowd that "Marty is a very special guy." In 1970, Sargent picked Linsky as his candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and then dumped him when Linsky was found driving late at night in Boston with a woman convicted of prostitution. At about 10 p.m., several hours after Sargent had left, Linsky told his supporters that he was "very optimistic." "We figured we'd have to come out in Newton and Brookline no worse than...