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Since last summer, Charles Laquidara has interrupted his rock-'n'-roll rap on Boston's WBCN-FM to urge commuters to boycott Shell Oil. Pointing out that an affiliate of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group supplies fuel to South Africa's army and police, the deejay has persuaded more than 1,000 listeners to cut up their Shell credit cards...
...Laquidara won his biggest convert last week when Mayor Ray Flynn signed an order making Boston the first U.S. city to ban municipal purchases of Shell products. The move is largely symbolic: the city has done only $2,500 in business with Shell in two years. Calling the action "misguided," a Shell spokesman said the company has been a strong antiapartheid voice in South Africa. Boston was joined by Berkeley, whose city council ordered a similar boycott of Shell...
...ceremony was a long, drawn-out affair. The presentation of all the four-inch plastic plaques, the occasional two-song performances by various local bands, the inevitable acceptance speeches, time-killing exchanges of (ideally) humorous repartee between the two emcees (local comedian Kevin Meany and WBCN DJ Charles Laquidara), and the 45-minute-late starting time that is a tradition of all events involving the appearance of nationally famous rock stars, made the ceremony even longer than the Oscars...
...readers' selections of poems. One would have hoped that the "Big Chill" generation's perspective on poetry might have produced meatier selections than the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." But, designed to appeal to an audience new to poetry readings, the selections often instead resembled what WBCN's Charles Laquidara called "that stuff I hated in high school...
Once an hour, WCVB-TV--Boston's Channel 5 and one of the 231 stations on the telethon's "Love Network," take over, and it's time for local celebrities. Not Harry Ellis Dickson, not Elma Lewis, not Charles Laquidara. It's Rex Trailer, a former cowboy who had a Saturday morning children's T.V. show about seven years ago. Now he leads trips to exciting Walt Disney World over April school vacation and, on Labor Day, helps raise money for Jerry's kids. Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobsen, Channel 5's anchor team and newlyweds who recently had their...