Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's tennis team (5-5) travelled cross-town Saturday and defeated the Boston College Eagles, 5-1, in the bitter cold of the William Flynn Complex tennis courts...
...Master Spy Kim Philby and his fellow moles for the Soviets. What distinguishes Forbes' book is his poignant linking of those defections to what he sees as his country's pervasive moral and material decay: "(He) wondered how anybody worth anything could continue to live in England. Every small town he drove through had the same faceless High Street: betting shops, uninviting pubs, takeaway Chinese restaurants, the pavements scarred with refuse spilling from plastic bags, as if the only growth industries left were those propagating ugliness and sloth. It seemed that the England he had once known had deliberately effaced...
These discussion groups, which have the flavor of electronic town meetings, are by far the most popular features on the two biggest networks, CompuServe (272,000 subscribers) and the Source (70,000). Their success has spawned a new crop of conference-oriented services that include BIX, Delphi, GEnie, Unison and the WELL. Hundreds of SIGs (special-interest groups) have sprung up on these networks, organized around topics ranging from science fiction to organic farming. The discussions are freewheeling and spontaneous, and the quality of the information, especially in technical matters, is often first rate. In discussing the merits of specific...
Kingsport, Tenn., rookie ball in the Appalachian League, is a typical first professional depot on the tour to the majors--"a one-mall town," as described by Gooden in the modern tongue. Youmans recalls, "The night I walked in, he was waiting for me. We just hugged and cried." The team's transportation around the mountains was a bus, of course, but for some reason the two friends found it endlessly funny that it was a school bus (no air conditioner). Every day Dwight called home. "Sometimes twice a day," Dan Gooden says. "One month we had a $460 phone...
...just a slogan," she says. "It's an appeal from the heart." Most Carmel residents agree, up to a point. McDonald's will never rear its golden arches within the one-square-mile village, and franchisers are likely to get a warmer reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little Sur" but have no street addresses. The mayor would like to guard this ambience even more vigorously; she is proud...