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...Boston Minutemen, the Hub's entry in the North American Professional Soccer League, has found a new home, Harvard Stadium, according to an announcement made Wednesday by John C. Sterge, president of the club...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Boston Minutemen to Use Harvard Field for Soccer | 1/23/1976 | See Source »

Across the Detroit River from the foot of Woodward Avenue you can see Windsor, Ontario, a city with close to 250,000 people. Windsor, a medium-sized processing and industrial center, is the quiet gateway to Ontario's southern farmlands. Windsor is hardly a hub cap's throw away from the soon to be completed Detroit Renaissance Center. From the top of the Center's 70-story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able...

Author: By Douglas Mcintyre and Robert Ullmann, S | Title: WOODWARD AVENUE | 1/14/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Last Rights for a Mortally Wounded City | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 25, 1975 | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

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