Word: philadelphia
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...list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams and 17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known work Miracle at Philadelphia vividly described the making of the U.S. Constitution. "She cared very much about right and wrong, but not once did she talk to me directly about it," says Bowen. "She was a silent force who set an example in her own living I cannot forget...
...University of Texas at El Paso, Hernell ("Jeep") Jackson, 23, was a local hero in a basketball-crazy city. His stunning leaps and savvy playmaking had helped his team win four Western Athletic Conference titles. Drafted this spring, he was headed for the U.S. Basketball League's Philadelphia Aces. Then early this month, during a benefit game, he collapsed and died...
Despite once boasting these star performers, the USBL remains a relatively modest undertaking. Five of the eight franchises are in the Northeast--Philadelphia, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey and Rhode Island--and the other three, for some reason, are in Florida (Miami, West Palm Beach and Tampa...
...years have passed since a fiery confrontation with the radical black cult known as MOVE left eleven dead and climaxed with a police bomb's destroying 61 Philadelphia row houses. Almost all the 236 surviving residents have since moved back into rebuilt homes, but the action still haunts the administration of Democratic Mayor W. Wilson Goode. Last week a grand jury investigating cost overruns associated with the $9 million home-reconstruction project recommended theft charges against two developers and blasted the mayor's office for what it termed a "morass of incompetence, ineptitude and mismanagement." The grand jury said...
When Davis hit two home runs one recent evening in Philadelphia, the Phillies pitcher Don Carman prescribed kryptonite. But at 6 ft. 3 in., scarcely 180 lbs., physically he is not even the most imposing of all the Davises in the major leagues (there are ten). Two days later, he hit three more homers -- one to right center, one to dead center, one to left center -- including his second grand slam of the weekend, putting him first in the National League in home runs (12), RBIs (27), runs (27), slugging (.900) and on-base (.475) percentages, game-winning hits...