Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rockville, Md., in 1979 Stephen Gregory got probation instead of a jail term thanks to a PTSD defense. Brandishing two rifles, he had held patrons in a Maryland bank hostage for 6½ hours after yelling, "This is not a stickup." His lawyer argued that Gregory was reliving a wartime event in which his best friend was killed; the policemen outside the bank became the Viet Cong in Gregory's mind, while the hostages were the comrades he sought to lead to safety...
...campaigned in Maryland last week, Kennedy denied he was trying to woo away Carter delegates. Said Kennedy of Carter's aides: "I don't understand what they are so worried about." The Senator also repeated his intention to stay in the race right up to the convention roll call, if only to ensure that he will have a major influence on the party's platform. Declared Kennedy: "I intend to do everything I possibly can to make sure the Democratic Party is going to shape solutions to deal effectively [with social and economic issues]." But he insisted...
...moment, the Bombers are battling the ever-fearsome Birds from the north for first place. Look for the Sox and the Maryland Pigeons to make a run for it, but the champs will reclaim the throne. And we are not ashamed...
Shabby penal operations are so prevalent, in fact, that in the past decade judges have found that prisons in 15 states were bad enough to be declared unconstitutional. Tennessee, Maryland, Rhode Island-these only begin the list. Suits demanding improvement have been filed in 15 other states, and with every chance of success. Court-ordered upgradings are to be welcomed and have already forced the betterment of prisons in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. But this method of progress is slow and not always effective. In most instances, too, it only raises conditions from subhuman to minimally lawful...
Building a better mousetrap was too prosaic for Boston-born Veterinarian Henry Foster. Instead, he built a better mouse-millions of them. Thirty years ago, Foster, whose degree came from a nonaccredited school in Massachusetts, paid $1,300 for some traps and pens from an abandoned Maryland rat farm, shipped them to Boston and went into business as Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc. Today Charles River, located on a 60-acre spread in Wilmington, Mass., is the world's largest supplier of animals for scientific research. In 1979 the firm netted $3 million on sales of $30 million...