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Dick White
So I'm gulping a large cherry Coke at the North End Willow Tree with Jack and Randy in the dead of summer, 1961, and we're talking about baseball records that will never be broken.
There are certain holy numbers branded in my consciousness like distant stars defining the outer limits of my 11-year-old mind. Like 714 (career home runs) and 4,190 (career hits) and 56 (consecutive-game hitting streak) and 2,130 (consecutive games played).
And 60.
"Nobody can hit 61 home runs," I tell Jack and Randy. "Nobody."
"Bet you a buck," says Jack.
Maris and Mantle are going after Babe Ruth's single-season record and I'm praying that Mantle will reach 60 because The Mick is my boy.
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FALL RIVER --A class-action lawsuit filed yesterday against Quaker Fabric Corp. alleges it failed to warn investors that a new computer system might cause production problems.
The suit against Quaker and six of its top officers claims the Fall River company in July knew but did not tell investors of its failure to properly test the new system.
A public acknowledgment of the computer problems in a press release Friday resulted in a 45 percent drop in the stock price.
Paul Gauvin
Underneath a mole hill mistaken for a mountain lies a tempest in a teacup -- and a valuable experience in the art of living.
Some 22 students at the UMass Dartmouth Campus were relegated to rooms at the Capri Motel on old Route 6 when the university ran out of dorm space for the fall semester.
Last week, some of the students complained about the poor condition of their rooms, the motel's unsavory ambiance, the perceived dangers inherent in such an environment, and the two-hour lull between buses provided by the university to the campus a few miles away.
Out of this ongoing incident has come one of the most astounding comments ever quoted in the press on or near a college campus, to wit: "Some of the Capri-based students ... were concerned about the cleanliness of their rooms..."
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WASHINGTON -- The government for decades "needlessly and wastefully" withheld millions of records about the assassination of President Kennedy, causing Americans to mistrust their government, a federal review panel concluded.
The Assassination Records Review Board closes shop this week after gathering and releasing a mountain of detail -- tantalizing and mundane -- about the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy in Dallas.
The documents it has collected over the past four years include new information about events in Dallas, the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, the presidential autopsy, photographs and reactions of government agencies to the assassination. It provides new fodder to be debated by historians and conspiracy theorists alike.
By Alexis Chiu, Associated Press writer
BOSTON -- There will be no long blue line at the funeral of William Johnson, once named state trooper of the year.
Embittered by what he perceived as a demotion from the narcotics squad at Logan International Airport to a job patrolling a parking garage, the former trooper left explicit burial instructions before committing suicide Friday: "I do not want a Massachusetts state trooper in uniform within 100 miles of my funeral -- I mean it."
Johnson's sister said the decorated 22-year state police veteran and former Green Beret from Revere never recovered from the direction his career took after a chance encounter with one of Boston's most infamous mobsters more than a decade earlier.
BOSTON -- Under state law, teachers are required to tell the Department of Social Services if they suspect one of their students is being abused.
But many educators don't know exactly where to go or what to do. And they worry that maybe they're doing the wrong thing.
A new reference guide, being made available to schools across the state beginning today, is designed to walk teachers through the process. Produced by the Children's Trust Fund, a quasi-public group, the manual gives educators checklists for recognizing signs of possible abuse, and tells them how to make suspicions known.
Have you ever wondered how skateboarders keep the board stuck to their feet when they jump? Is it Velcro stuck to the bottom of their shoes?
You can find out at Solstice, a skateboard shop located on the second floor at 528 Pleasant St., New Bedford
Grandison Taber, 22, and Jay Vasconcellos, 25, opened the shop in May 1997.
Mr. Grandison had been skateboarding for nine years and Mr. Vasconcellos for 11 years. The idea for the shop came from their love of the sport and the feeling was a need for a shop like theirs around here.
THE STORY SO FAR: Jesse Damron's family is moving back to Kentucky but her older brother Moses doesn't want to leave.
May 4, 1828. West Bank of the Little Wabash River, Illinois.
I startle awake in the night, hearing voices outside. I sit up slow, trying not to jostle Louisa. How can a skinny 6-year-old take up so much room? I peer out the tiny square window above our pallet. Moses stands close to the house with Papa. The moon slips in and out of the clouds, so I can barely see their faces. Moses' legs are planted wide, like sturdy oak trees. "Since you sold the sheep, the calf, and the chickens, how are you fixing to farm?" Moses asks Papa in a low voice.
Is it time?
Are we ready?
Can New England fans finally find it in themselves now, at long last, to embrace this lovable, overachieving Red Sox team that they have kept at an emotional arm's length all season?
Or do they, after months of hesitation and trepidation, still want to wait, perhaps until the Sox win a playoff game?
CLEVELAND -- It's deja vu all over again.
The last time the Red Sox made it into the playoffs was in 1995. Their opposition? The Cleveland Indians.
That series opened in Cleveland's Jacobs Field.
So does this one.
The Indians swept that three-game, first-round series.
New Bedford Schools Superintendent Dr. Joseph Silva had better get busy, because there is little chance that the Naval Reserve Center at Fort Rodman will be used much longer for non-marine related School Department activities. They need another, more appropriate, home -- and UMass Dartmouth needs space to expand, soon. Mayor Fred Kalisz has turned up the pressure on Dr. Silva to relocate the adult education and teen parenting programs that are at Fort Rodman mainly for a lack of a better place to put them. He wants those programs out, to make room for the hot-as-a-pistol marine science sector represented by the new UMass Center for Marine Science and Technology. The center wants additional room for technology development and cooperative education; the Naval Reserve Center right next door is perfect.
DEVENS Testing is the name of the school reform game, at least in the states and large urban school districts. Tests are a vehicle for what appears to be a straightforward and well-intentioned policy.
The schools, the argument goes, are not delivering for many children. So we must raise academic standards. Setting clear academic goals and then testing for whether each school has met them for each child will create the necessary pressures for improved performance. Schools whose students meet the standard will be rewarded. Schools that do not deliver will be helped. If the help does not yield desired results, these schools will be shut down, or, as current jargon has it, "be reconstituted."
It took eight art historians and gemologists 15 years to write "The Crown Jewels: The History of the Coronation Regalia," and each copy retails for as much as a small gem -- about $1,600.
The limited-edition, two-volume set comes in a red slipcase and weighs nearly 40 pounds. It is 1,200 pages -- with 400 pictures -- about the Crown Jewels of England, used at every coronation of a British monarch for 300 years.
Two million visitors view the jewels each year at the Tower of London.
The best clothes on the runway that Friday morning in New York were pale yellow -- a muted marigold -- and shadowy gray. But the line of fashionistas waiting at the Chelsea Piers taxi stand after Mark Eisen's show told another color story entirely.
A woman more Camryn Manheim than Cameron Diaz fidgeted near the curb in a hot-pink sweater set and a long black skirt. Farther down the line, a pixieish scribe in a black pants suit and a hot-pink ribbed shirt interviewed a pregnant woman in front of her. Behind them, a cell-phone abuser in a black sleeveless shell and gray pants had tied the sleeves of a hot-pink sweater around her neck, although not tightly enough to stop her from shouting.
And then there was that Mirabella senior market editor who, in search of her driver, whooshed by wearing a hot-pink cashmere sweater and matching hot-pink suede Chanel ballet flats. "Pink is it, definitely," she said, a bubble-gum-colored blur traversing the blacktop.
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