Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter for a small daily newspaper in rural Upstate New York when I met Robin Starling. He was only 13 but the most critical event of his entire life had already occurred. The event had taken place when he was 10. He had been sitting stop one of the powerful diesel engine tractors on his father's prosperous Lewis County dairy farm. The tractor lurched forward unexpectedly. The 80-pound boy fell off his makeshift seat and into the tangle of steel blades. It was a wonder he wasn't decapitated was the comment from the doctors who saved...
...half years later, I was dispatched to the Starling family farm to interview Robin, who had been winning blue ribbons for his calf, Dickv, at county fair cattle shows throughout northern New York. As I followed Robin through his farm chores--gingerly side-stepping cow manure--I noticed that he got around surprisingly well on his mechanical limbs. I had unnecessarily steeled myself for his physical awkwardness. The awkwardness I found instead was the shyness typical of any boy going through puberty...
...Robin Sing, who was fired from her job at Gund Hall library on February 18, filed a complaint with the MCAD in March, charging that she had been dismissed because of one and a half days of absence she spent looking after her four-year-old child...
...Rolls-Royce radiator grilles and a slab of stainless steel? Or maybe a $1,380 three-seater sofa with a tubular frame? The Art Deco creations and their superstar price tags are the work of a London furniture company co-owned by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and Designer Robin Cruikshank. "I had the conventional art-school training, but he comes up with some very unusual ideas," says Cruikshank of his partner. Among Starr's contributions: a doughnut-shaped fireplace and a table designed to look like a flower with petal seats that adjust in height. "With three children," says...
From bow to stroke, the crew will be: sophomore Robin Lothrop: Gail Rasmussem, a freshman: junior Ann Robinson: Diane Hickman, another freshman, at 4: junior co-captain Alison Hill at 5: next year's captain junior Katy Moss; sophomore Allison Hall at 7: and Barbara Norris, next year's RUS president, at stroke. Cox will be junior co-captain Nancy Hadley...