Word: westfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Westfield, Mass...
Stephen Donnelly Westfield, Mass...
What was not anticipated was that Schramm would hit his head and left shoulder blade on the board during his final tune-up session Wednesday. Undaunted, the Westfield, N.J., junior took to the board the next day wearing a bathing cap to protect his bandage and eight stitches. Despite the injuries and a stomach virus, the end of the 11-dive contest found only three-time defending champion Paul Steck standing between Schramm and the gold medal...
...crusade against the shops, in Westfield, Mass., began when a horrified friend showed some pipes and smoking paraphernalia he had found in his twelve-year-old son's bureau to City Councilor Charles Medeiros. "I had thought those things were illegal," Medeiros said. He proposed an ordinance, which passed unanimously, requiring such stores to get licenses. Mayor Gary Lynch, who reluctantly signed the law, commented, "It strikes me as cutting off the branches instead of the roots...
Paraphernalia Trade Association, with headquarters in Philadelphia: "We're not a bunch of stoned-out hippies carving pipes in the basement. We're normal businessmen with shirts and ties." The association hired a lawyer to fight Westfield's action and won a preliminary injunction against enforcing the new ordinance. Whatever the outcome, the battle is educational. Says Medeiros: "I'll tell you, I've learned a lot myself. I never knew they sold orange-flavored cigarette papers...