Word: davises
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After losing $410 million in fiscal 1998, which ended Sept. 30, electronic-controls and communications conglomerate Rockwell International took the drastic step of spinning off its semiconductor business into a separate company. It is a giant, with sales of roughly $1.3 billion, or nearly a fifth of Rockwell's total...
City Councillor Henrietta Davis said she thought that although the truck issue was an important one, she believes it will be difficult to implement the new law.
"The goal is a really right one, and I wholly support the idea of banning trucks in Cambridge at night. I am not overly optimistic that it will work," Davis said.
DIED. KENNETH S. DAVIS, 86, historian and tireless biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt; in Manhattan, Kans. The author of books on Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower as well, he had just completed the fifth volume of his prizewinning life of F.D.R.
I was 14 years old when I first saw Jackie Robinson. It was the spring of 1948, the year after Jackie changed my life by breaking baseball's color line. His team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, made a stop in my hometown of Mobile, Ala., while barnstorming its way north to...