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...improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early: "His eyes light up when it's time to play...
...school varsity sports and fired 600 substitute teachers. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White has ordered $15 million slashed from this year's school budget to help ease the pain of a $56 increase in the city's already inflated $196.20-per-$ 1,000 property-tax rate. The Hub's unhappy school department has decided to layoff provisional teachers and to cut back student health services and special education programs...
Cheevers made 31 stops in goal for the Hub, icemen, while his New York counterpart, Gilles Gratton, blocked 24 Boston shots...
...Bruins had spent the week encouraging their fans to come out to the Garden for a look at ex-Hub heroes Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Carol Vadnais, but it was two unheralded young Rangers who were worth watching...
...around here, there are lots more in Boston--a glimpse into the realm of the obvious, I suppose, worth considering if you make sure you leave long before last call, which frequently comes about an hour after the last subway. My favorite Boston bar is the Top of the Hub, even though it's crowded, expensive and outrageously bourgeois, because if you get a table near the window you can get dizzy just watching the lights, which cuts down drinking costs a lot. It's at the top of the Prudential Center, really easy to find...