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...most diminutive state in the Union, and home of Brown University--which shrewd young people recognize as an ephemeral fad and old folks remember as the school you went to if you couldn't get in anywhere else--it even lost its minor-league hockey team, the Rhode Island Reds, a few years back...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Big Mess in a Little State | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

While the Tigers leaped past the startled field the Crimson disappointed its partisan fans. Although the aquawomen finished 3-2, topping MIT, the University of Rhode Island and Queens, (the Harvard aquawomen lost to Princeton and Brown) the Crimson finished fourth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Claims Tourney: Aquawomen Finish Fourth | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...From what we understand, the dogs' owners drive a big truckload of dogs out to Rhode Island and shot them," said Stephen A. Klein, staff counsel to the Joint Counties Committee...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Biomedical Researchers Get a Break | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

Next week the biggest U.S. brewer, Anheuser-Busch, will roll out a brand called L.A., for light alcohol, in ten test markets from California to Rhode Island. Detroit-based Stroh, the third-largest brewer, this week will announce a low-alcohol brand called Schaefer L.A. The customers thirstiest for the new brands are expected to be males over 25 who have begun to worry about their health. Industry watchers say Anheuser-Busch will spend up to $30 million on its ad campaign featuring such modern life-style exemplars as a businessman bicycling to his job and a fitness buff working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft Suds | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Octette Bridge Club by P.J. Barry. Or: Morning's at Seven times two. This canny comedy-drama concerns the eight Donavan sisters, all Rhode Island Catholics of a certain age, who spend every other Friday night from 1931 to 1944 playing cards, swapping pieties and gibes, and often giggling like ticklish Munchkins. Yes, there are private agonies that not even the trill of Irish laughter can successfully smother, but the lingering mood is fond and bantering, as if the playwright had stumbled into some improbable locker room of maiden aunts. It takes no imagination at all to see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Straight from the Heartland | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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