Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowell House junior died in an automobile accident early Wednesday morning while driving in his hometown of Northboro, Mass...
...careers and self-realization. Then, shrewdly, she dropped down to a supporting role in The Trip to Bountiful, a film in which the redoubtable Geraldine Page, who won an Oscar for it this spring, does the bravura acting. Page is an old woman who wants to see her hometown before she dies. De Mornay plays the wife of a soldier, who meets Page in a bus station. She sits primly with her handbag in her lap and leaves the big, round gestures to Page. The contrast is expert moviemaking...
...life around their nine children, their devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and their charitable works. Through the De Rance Foundation, which Harry started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world's largest Catholic charity, the Johns stayed out of the spotlight...
Tufts, the hometown favorite, had knocked off third seed B.U., 3-1, to enter the finals...
...remains be cremated so his ashes could be scattered into the Pacific near his home in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A military service will be held at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii for Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka. Mission Specialist Ronald McNair will be interred in his hometown of Lake City, S.C.. The family of Mission Specialist Judith Resnik has not announced its plans. The final ceremony for Challenger's crew will be at Arlington, where the body parts that could not be identified will be placed in a common grave dedicated to all the astronauts...