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Jonathan D. Aks East Brunswick...
...Radcliffe lacrosse team took it on the chin again yesterday. This time it was at the hands of Bowdoin, which handed the laxwomen a 5-3 loss in a game played in Brunswick, Maine...
...SEPTEMBER 1776, the Continental Congress sent John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to Staten Island to negotiate with Lord Howe. On their journey to Philadelphia the two stopped for the night in Brunswick, where at a crowded inn they were forced to share not only a small room but the same bed. Trouble started immediately, as Adams--a self-proclaimed invalid--wanted the window shut and Franklin, claiming it would be healthier, insisted it stay open. Franklin won out, and the two Americans faced the cold together in bed. But years later, in his Autobiography, Adams was to have the final...
...foolhardy venture: Malcolm Bricklin, 36, an unconventional millionaire from Philadelphia who sometimes wore Indian beads, thought he could start an auto-manufacturing business from scratch. To the surprise of many, Bricklin, who had made his original fortune running hardware stores, actually acquired two plants in Canada's New Brunswick province and started making his unconventional Bricklin cars. Now two secured creditors and the New Brunswick government, which had put up more than $20 million in cash and loan guarantees to obtain 67% control of Bricklin Canada Ltd., have placed the company in receivership, closing the plants. Bricklin himself proclaimed...
...several weeks whether the company can be reorganized. The odds on the Bricklin car rising Phoenix-like, however, are poor. Bricklin claimed last week to have lined up more than $10 million from new U.S. investors, and earnestly solicited an additional $10 million to $15 million from the New Brunswick provincial and Canadian federal governments. But Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's administration is cutting its budget to attack inflation and is in no mood to boost new spending. New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative premier, Richard Hatfield, is under heavy political fire for putting taxpayers' money into...