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...fear of litigation triumphed. Says Jane Langford, the New Independent's owner: "It goes against the grain here to prevent people from using their own land." Plus, it's hard to stop them. Unlike locales that have contested the Mormons' current wave of temple building (a dispute in Belmont, Mass., seems destined for the Supreme Court), Nauvoo had no zoning laws and no desire to lock legal horns with an opponent worth some $30 billion. When the Mormons anted up $471,000 for town expenses, they got their permit. Most of the townspeople, says Wallace, "were proud of the council...
DIED. LUCIEN LAURIN, 88, Hall of Fame trainer who saddled 36 stakes winners, including Secretariat, who won the 1973 Belmont by an unprecedented 31 lengths to win the Triple Crown; in Miami. DIED. VERA ATKINS, 92, British spymaster who inspired the James Bond character Miss Moneypenney; in Hastings, England. Born in Romania, Atkins recruited and trained nearly 500 secret agents to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, concocting elaborate identities for the spies. After the war, she tracked down the fates of 117 missing agents and brought their murderers to war-crimes trials...
...where in the closing seconds he stole the ball and sunk the basket that gave his team the NBA title. Others would pick the "perfect game" that Don Larsen pitched for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series. Or Secretariat's amazing 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. What each of these performances has in common is domination--a superb athlete taking on the best of his peers and crushing them. But for my money, no other athlete has dominated his sport in a single outing the way Tiger Woods did in winning the recent U.S. Open...
...former director of Harvard's Expository Writing program, a Reformation scholar and an acclaimed novelist, Richard C. Marius died at his home in Belmont on Nov. 5 from pancreatic cancer...
...only five days ago, Sage's grocery store closed its doors in the Square after 70 years. The store's other locations, in Belmont, Waltham and Boston, will remain open...