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...already called on the association's members to comply. But last week the Massachusetts Beverage Industry and Labor Committee announced a drive to collect the 29,434 signatures necessary to get a referendum repealing the bill on next November's ballot. Their chance of success may be slight. When opponents of Maine's law managed to get a referendum on the ballot in 1979, the voters snowed them under by a vote...
...lucky for Playwright Thompson, author of On Golden Pond, that Hepburn brings all her voices to his slight comedy, which is virtually tongue-tied as to passion and skimpily plotted. Hepburn plays Margaret Mary Elderdice, a widow of about 70, who is fiercely independent of mind but whose body is weakening. In the course of the play, physical declivity takes her from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair. Her lifeline is no longer in the palm of her hand...
...Crimson must also avoid the lackadaisical play on specialty teams, especially kick returns, that has plagued the team all fall. Place kicker Jim Villanueva gives Harvard a slight edge in the field goal department...
...minus-nine minutes, a slight drop in liquid-oxygen pressure was detected in the huge 526,000-gal. external fuel tank and in one of three oxygen tanks carried aboard the orbiter. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson at Mission Control in Houston stopped the countdown and consulted other technicians. The problem did not seem serious. Pressure in the tanks could be adjusted by warming the oxygen with on-board heaters. Ground computers guiding the launch were instructed to ignore the pressure drop, and the countdown continued...
...slight majority of those who place personals are men. Most draw a creditable picture of themselves: sensitive, traveled, adventurous, well educated, fond of outdoor sports, sunsets, music, conversation and dining out. Many note that they are nonsmokers and drink moderately, if at all. Backpacking seems to be a prime recreation. For the most part, they picture themselves as moderately attractive. One male describes himself as "better than Redford," but another confesses he is "devastatingly average." Next to physical appearance, the most frequently mentioned attraction is financial security. In a recent letter to the editor, one reader complained of the emphasis...