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...Talbot Bailey Aldrich "shoots a few ducks, and misses many, on the rice fields." Willard Dalrymple Brown listed his hobby as "home gardening: specializing in weeds...
...though, it will be up to the courts to sort out the mess. The Maxwells acted to place the private company, the Robert Maxwell Group, into receivership after all attempts to raise fresh outside capital proved hopeless. John Talbot, the administrator appointed by the High Court last week to oversee the family's private holdings, said Maxwell's remaining assets were likely to be put up for sale. That includes the Maxwells' stock in Maxwell Communication as well as their 51% stake in the Mirror Group...
While Harvard controlled the first half, Princeton tied up the game at 1-1 when sophomore forward John Talbot smashed a ball from just outside the goalie's box into the upper right corner past Reilly...
...most places, the idea has met with anger, outrage -- and defeat. Last fall a proposal in rural Talbot County, Md., to make condoms available in high schools failed to pass the school board by just one vote. In prosperous Marin County, Calif., Tamalpais High School abandoned a plan for condom distribution after a coalition of pro-life supporters and parents filed suit to stop it. Los Angeles' pilot reproductive-health project overcame vigorous opposition only when the city agreed to a parental-consent feature; about 75% of parents at the three participating schools have acceded...
Part of this sense of mission is the unintended legacy of the Reagan Administration. By cutting the EPA's regulatory clout and budget, the Administration forced the states to take up the nation's environmental business. Says Talbot Page, an environmental-studies professor at Brown University: "The Reagan era created a climate in which grass-roots organizations began to think they were needed and could be effective...