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...what is laudable in Eugene is anathema to the lumbermen in the rest of the district. Says Weaver: "My problem is that my district's Establishment -it all revolves around the timber industry-opposes me." With help from lumber companies, utilities and the National Republican Congressional Committee, Mike Fitzgerald, 47, a garrulous, former public relations man from San Diego, has Weaver running like a Roosevelt elk, a species that he has fought to conserve. They agree only in their opposition to gun controls...
...wonderful, really wonderful--worth all the effort," Mary Ellen Fitzgerald, coordinator of the 350th celebration, said yesterday as she stood on trash-lined Boylston St. following the parade. "It couldn't have gone any better...
...Fitzgerald's reaction was typical of city leaders, who watched the parade from a Winthrop Square reviewing stand after they walked the three-mile route. "Fine, fine day for a parade," Kevin Crane '73 said as he watched the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School marching band...
...program, to see Minuteman Tech providing more air force support than any other school in the metropolitan Boston area," he says. "You are taking part in a great citizenship program," he adds. To commemorate the patriotic tendencies of the youth assembled behind him, Ullrich awards Minuteman Tech principal Ron Fitzgerald a flag that was flown not only over the Capitol, but also over a southwestern Air Force Base, where it was in the "honored position" while a flyby of T-38s passed over...
...Fitzgerald hands the flag to a team of four fliers from nearby Hanscom Air Force Base so they can raise it over the school while the band plays the national anthem. But with the brass looking on, they run into problems--the halyards are too thick for the grommets in the corners of the flag, and try as they will--and they try as they will for fully five minutes--the goddamn thing will not go up. Finally, a little desperately, Colonel Phillips goes up to help. At last, the flag goes up and the band begins to play...