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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some stores, deciding that clothes make the cyclist, have dispensed with stocking bikes altogether. The Bicycle Outfitter, a Los Altos, Calif., retailer, launched a clothing-only store in Sausalito, outside San Francisco, five months ago and has just opened another one in Concord, near Oakland. Fittingly, these haberdasheries look like boutiques more than bike shops, with dressing rooms, mirrors, carpeted floors and female personnel to help women customers feel as if they are buying haute couture rather than sporting goods...
Shreveport was the first stop on an eight-city tour designed by Bennett to focus attention on "the art of teaching." Also on the list are Washington; St. Louis and Clayton, Mo.; Osburn, Idaho; San Jose; Raleigh, N.C.; and Concord, N.H., where Bennett will sub for Sharon Christa McAuliffe, who is preparing for her January trip aboard the space shuttle. Bennett, a University of Texas Ph.D. in philosophy, who has taught at several universities, said he found teaching "one of the toughest jobs anyone could possibly have...
...like other well-laid plans in Rosegrant's life, this ambition was soon replaced. The summer after her sophomore year, she decided to give her ecological bent "one last try," studying plants and animals at a site in Concord. But the vote for the life of a naturalist was a unanimous "No" among her psychic constituents. "I couldn't pick up a book and study mountain gorrillas because it didn't interest me anymore," she says of that turn-around summer...
...Harvard men's golf team shot its best 18-hole round of the season yesterday, at the Concord Country Club, in coming from behind to retain its Greater Boston Championship...
...Year's Eve, a very nervous man in a leather bombardier's jacket walked into the police station in Concord, N.H., and said that he was the fugitive wanted for the New York subway shootings. The policemen read Goetz his Miranda warning, telling him he did not have to talk if he preferred not to. He wanted to. For the next four hours, two of which were videotaped, Goetz unburdened himself. While he did not feel he had done anything wrong, Goetz said he had "acted like a cold-blooded savage." Several times he punctuated his account by remarking that...