Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Good fences make good neighbors," says a line by Robert Frost. At Long Beach's Lindbergh Junior High School, the idea was to keep out some very bad neighbors. For years, outdoor gym classes have been endangered by bullets, bottles and even an arrow from the neighboring Carmelitos housing project. One student was shot while playing basketball in the Lindbergh school yard two years ago. A year later, gym teacher Joan Reedy had to hustle her class into the building when a bullet whizzed past...
Residents of the neighborhood groused that they didn't want to put up with visiting busloads of crime buffs. Italian-American organizations argued, somewhat illogically, that by designating the house, the Government would be honoring Capone, thus defaming their ethnic group. Said Robert Allegrini, executive director of the Joint Civic Commission of Italian Americans: "We shouldn't be haunted by Capone's ghost 50 years later." Daunted by the furor, Levell withdrew his proposal last week, explaining, "I still feel the house is historically significant, but not at the cost of hurting the Italian- American community...
...machines offered such innovations as ultradense clusters of circuit boards cooled by liquid nitrogen, but lacked adequate software. Control Data lost about $200 million on supercomputers during the past three years, and Chairman Robert Price thinks the venture would have consumed plenty more. Said he: "Let's put it this way: there are less risky ways to bet $200 million in the computer industry...
...said they finally decided to file the complaint, after more than a month's delay, because City Manager Robert W. Healy failed to issue a written response to complaints they raised with him shortly after the incident...
Harvard's top five scorers were: Mike Foster, 82-84-166; Terry Murray, 85-82-167; Ross Cockrell, 85-86-171; Robert Kincaid, 84-92-176 and David Miller, 94-92-186. The top scorers qualified for the teams' composite ranking...