Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Northeastern comes to visit. The bruisers from the other side of town are bigger than you, faster, stronger, able to leap buildings with a single bound. They are also favored. But your Crimson is up to it. Harvard fights and claws its way to victory. Last year's Beanpot defeat of your good friend Billy Cleary is avenged...
...used to be simple to find a plumber, a taxi service or just about any other business around town. Most people simply took out the Yellow Pages and let their fingers do the walking. But these days, the searching shopper must first decide which phone book is likely to have the best answer. Like the good old telephone system, the plain old Yellow Pages has changed considerably since the 1984 breakup of AT&T. Consumers now choose from a virtual home library of competing Yellow Pages, including special editions for children, the elderly, doctors and boaters, and even multilingual versions...
...Colino, 51, was well regarded and prosperous. As director general of the Washington-based International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, or Intelsat, which manages the global satellite- communications system, he had an annual salary of about $250,000, with prospects of hefty increases. His executive perquisites included a chauffeur- driven Lincoln Town Car, an annual housing allowance of about $40,000 and free first-class air travel to anywhere in the world. Colino, who graduated from Amherst and Columbia University School of Law, inspired admiration and sometimes envy among his peers. "In many ways," says a former associate, "he was an extraordinary...
...located on the narrow, volcano-filled Bicol peninsula. Early last week that line was dramatically severed as 500 men, dressed in military fatigues and believed to be guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army, hijacked a train bound from Naga to the capital. They commandeered it to the town of Del Gallego and attacked the local constabulary headquarters, killing at least five policemen and three civilians. To cover their rear, the rebels blew up a key railroad bridge and effectively cut off train service between the capital and the rest of the peninsula...
Psychas says that she and her friends have also found themselves going out of the Square to drink. "I've been into Central Square some," she says. "It gets you into a different part of town, but I still wish that there were more places in the Square...