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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler of Brockton, Mass. disappointed his followers last night, as he drew with defending middleweight champ Vito Antuofermo. Antuofermo retains the title by virtue of the draw, but he offered Hagler a rematch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...evening's featured fifth bout however, Brockton, Mass. Robbie Simms, the 19-year-old half-brother of top middleweight contender. Margin Hagler, took a unanimous decision from Simon Ramos of New York's Apollo Club...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: New Yorkers Prevail in IAB Boxing | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...Cities like Lowell, Fall River, Brockton--all the older cities--have the potential to come back," Tsongas told the crowd gathered for the CCA's annual meeting, adding that attracting high-technology industry was one key to the recovery...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Tsongas Tells Cambridge Civic Association That Area Cities Have a Chance to Recover | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...Okay, now, what am I supposed to do here? Is that the high school over there? When do I come in? At the intermission, oh, that's okay." We are standing in a parking lot somewhere in Brockton, Mass. Across the highway is a large concrete, metal and glass structure, "the largest high school in the state," we are told. There are seven of us--one reporter, one photographer, one driver, one advance woman, two campaign workers and one Senator. Ed Brooke pins a carnation on a campaign worker he's never met and looks confused...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: 'It Doesn't Stop in the Living Room' | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...recently laid-off teacher of English composition from Brockton, N.Y., Kim is also a member of an outfit called the Society for Creative Anachronism, with a "couple of hundred" confreres scattered across the Northeast. Medieval buffs, they engage in "wars, feasts and revels" at appropriate times of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ann Arbor: The Guns of July | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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