Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knapp has replaced Maguire in every game this season. Saturday, Knapp played the final Cornell offensive play after Maguire was banged up by a Bill Ross sack...
Baird & McGuire is just this side of the border with Randolph, a town that has shared water supplies with Holbrook. Esther Ross, a Randolph resident, says she got worried in 1981 when she found herself going to a lot of funerals. There is a certain Times Beach ring to her recitation. "The people who owned the house next door were stricken by cancer," she says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims...
...people are not panicking. Says O'Donnell: "Most of them have no interest whatsoever. I know people who have health problems, and even they refuse to get involved." Many seem troubled less by threats to health than by threats to property values. Especially since O'Donnell, Ross and Abbott formed a group called People United to Restore the Environment, the women have been attacked as kooks and cranks...
...away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil and water tests, and the results of more precisely targeted health studies. Most of all, naturally, they await results at the site itself. They want a permanent cleanup, says Ross, "so that we can all go back into Sleepy Hollow and rest assured that nothing is wrong." Curiously, not even the local activists plan to move away. "Where am I going to move," asks Abbott, "that it's not going to crop up in my backyard again? Where is safe...
...singing so. With fellow Philly Cheeses Bill Cosby and David Brenner, LaBelle, 41, has done an "I Love Philadelphia" commercial as part of the city's civic-pride campaign. She can well afford to be supportive. After toiling for years in the shadow of Soul Sisters Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Tina Turner, the singer is finally coming into her own. LaBelle was a major contributor to the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, and her performance at the Live Aid benefit was one of the show's high points. In addition, she has a new album, Patti, out, just finished...