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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nancy Payton, analyst for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals spoke in favor of the repeal of the pound seizure...
Payton said Massachusetts is one of the few states allowing researchers to requisition animals from a local pound. They pay as little as $1.50 per cet and $3 per dog. Payton added that the lab animals are grossly mistreated...
From the pulpit, through the mails, in leaflets, at mass rallies and on such TV programs as Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour, which appears on 373 stations, members of Moral Majority and allied groups pound home the same message: the U.S. is in a terrifying moral decline, and Christians have a duty to reverse it by registering and voting for candidates who agree with their moral principles. As enunciated by Falwell and other conservative evangelicals, those principles are remarkably similar to the Republican platform-which in fact Moral Majority had a hand in shaping...
...gathered in Boston Common for the conclusion of the city's five-month Jubilee 350 celebration. Naturally the goodies were scaled to suit the town's venerability: a 2,000-lb. creamy fudge sundae and a 14-ft. by 6-ft. field of butter-creamed pound cake adorned with a 5-ft. marzipan replica of historic Faneuil Hall. The cake, a six-month construction project for Entenmann's Bakery and a local architectural firm, was surrounded, of course, by 350 candles. Kevin White, 51, mayor of Boston for what seems like most of its history...
...their final frenetic weeks of training, crisscrossing city streets and country lanes, eating special foods, subjecting their bodies to all manner of special exercises. The object of all this self-inflicted agony is the Oct. 26 New York City Marathon, when 16,000 runners will try to pound out 26.2 miles (42.2 km) in the world's largest long-distance race. Few will be able to match stride with the likes of Four-Time Winner Bill Rodgers. But for many competitors, just finishing is its own special victory: they are convinced that long-distance running protects them from heart...