Word: hemenway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tonight, tomorrow and Sunday, the Fifth Annual Boston Open Squash Tournament will be staged at Harvard's Hemenway Gymnasium. The tournament brings to Boston the world's best squash players, both professional and amateur...
Speaking from her wheelchair, Pat Hemenway, 46, quietly described to Washington State legislators what had happened to her. While she was walking near the University of Washington campus one day in 1972, two young muggers accosted her. For no apparent reason, one suddenly shot her in the neck, grabbed her purse and left her bleeding-and permanently paralyzed. Obviously moved by her story, the lawmakers voted to pass a new kind of law that would provide state funds to ease the plight of Mrs. Hemenway and hundreds of others like...
Before she could receive any payments, Mrs. Hemenway died of pneumonia, which had been complicated by her paralysis. Her husband will receive at least $19,000 to cover her hospital bills and other costs, but her larger legacy is Washington's law, which went into effect this summer and will aid victims of violent crime. Since California began the trend in 1965, 12 more states have enacted similar statutes, and Congress is now considering a federal crime-victims' compensation bill...
...After several talks with John Yovicsin (director of Recreation and Club Sport) last spring, it was mentioned, but not promised, that $500 would be spent on equipment in Hemenway gym," Rizzo said...
...Poor, ranked number one in Massachusetts last year, disposed of Whitman in four games, 15-6, 6-15, 15-13, 15-8, to win the Massachusetts State "A" finals, which were played at the Hemenway courts...