Word: hub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controlled the professions and business. Despite simmering eruptions, notably in 1958 when the U.S. sent in troops to prevent a leftist take over, Lebanon thrived for decades as a result of its compromise-and of a Swiss-style neutrality that helped to make it the trading, banking and communications hub of the Arab world...
Being a Boston Red Sox fan a thousand miles from the Hub is not all that easy. It consists of trying to glean the game story out of a box score, since the typical game blurb was only a sentence or two long. It also means staying up to get the ball scores if the Sox were out West. Otherwise you'd be kept in suspense until two days later when the story would finally make the morning editions...
Died. General Anthony C. McAuliffe, 77, hero of the Battle of the Bulge; of leukemia; in Washington. Left in temporary command of the 101st Airborne Division during a rest period, feisty "Old Crock" McAuliffe was ordered to hold the Belgian road hub of Bastogne when the Nazis launched a desperate counteroffensive in the icy whiter of 1944. McAuliffe's 10,000 men were surrounded by Panzers, outnumbered 4 to 1, and running short of food, medicine and ammunition when a German officer arrived with the surrender ultimatum that brought the U.S. general's famous, quickly scrawled reply...
Rick Burleson, in his second year at shortstop, already is the hub of the infield. A real hustler, and highly underrated. Rooster, as he is called, is in a hitting slump now. Denny Doyle is the new second baseman, and now that he's with a hot team he's exceeded all expectations (which, admittedly, weren't much, but you get cynical about these deals). Doug Griffin, the regular second baseman, gets injured constantly, but is a fine infielder as well. At third base, well, the less said about Rico Petrocelli the better, although some think differently. Everyone has their...
...terrific singer, Mercedes Hall, will be at Sandy's Jazz Revival on Sunday and Monday. Sandy's is only 30 minutes from the Hub, on 54 Cabot ST. in Beverly...