Word: hometown
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...film spans two decades, beginning on July 4, 1956. Ron Kovic's tenth birthday is the U.S.'s 180th, and his hometown of Massapequa, N.Y., is parading its patriotism down Main Street. Disabled veterans are wheeled out, including one (played by the real Kovic, co-author of the film's screenplay) who flinches at the sound of a firecracker. It must remind him of a war that demands elegies. But young Ron -- too busy watching skyrockets that night to pay attention to a first kiss from his precocious friend Donna -- sees organized gunplay as the short road to manly glory...
...perfect day for baseball. Now if only the baseball had been perfect. At McKechnie Field in Bradenton on the Gulf Coast, the midweek weather might have been auditioning for a Florida picture postcard, but the hometown Explorers committed three errors, looked orphaned on the base paths and lost by nine runs. After the game, Wayne Garrett, the former New York Met, who entered the lineup in the eighth inning, was asked if he was exhausted from playing. "No," Garrett sighed, "but I was tired of watching...
...Name P Cl Hometown 1 Michael Francis G JR Braintree, MA 3 Brian Popiel D SR Thunder Bay, ONT 5 Kevan Melrose D SR Red Deer, ALB 6 Ted Donato F JR Dedham, MA 7 Rich DeFreitas D SO Manchester, NH 9 Matt Mallgrave F FR Silver Spring, MD 11 John Weisbrod F JR Woodbury, NY 12 Steven Flomenhoft F FR Riverwoods, IL 14 C.J. Young F SR Waban, MA 17 Peter Ciavaglia F JR Buffalo, NY 18 Ted Drury F FR Trumbull, CT 19 Tim Burke F SO Wellesley, MA 21 Kevin Sneddon D SO Burlington, ONT 22 Brian...
...Harvard has to try its best to givesomething back--from sponsoring an active HarvardClub in a donor's hometown to offering a big givera seat on an advisory committee...
...documents show, were in Puerto Rico, which the regional office administered. Last week HUD Secretary Jack Kemp decided to move Puerto Rico operations out of the New York region, which would put them beyond D'Amato's reach. D'Amato also helped gain HUD financing for work in his hometown on Long Island, where his brother Armand, a lawyer, profited from the closings on house sales. Armand D'Amato also represented a company that won a HUD contract for a luxury resort rather than housing for the poor...