Description: 1) Cash rich corporations buy tax credits from poorer companies under Reagan's economic recovery program. 2) Changing structure of American family — more single parents and working mothers; Uri Bronfenbrenner. 3) Brief on state senator Alan Sisitsky charged with disruptive behavior at Seattle Airport. 4) Interview with writer V.S. Naipaul. 5) Studio Red Top is home for Boston women in jazz; Cathy Lee, founder and Barbara Merjan, percussionist. 6) Stravinsky centennial festival at New England Conservatory; Robert Craft; photo of Igor; student ensemble with chorus and French horns. 7) Obit of French filmmaker Abel Gance; silent clip from “Napoleon.” Anchor Lydon in bow tie.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1981
Description: Meter maid writes parking ticket. A. Alan Friedberg of Sack Theaters comments on inequity of renting movies on videocassette. Interview with Ross Terrill on Reagan's China trip. Boston Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld shows samples of his work after winning Pulitzer. Greek Orthodox Bishop Methodios. Interior of St. Basilio's Church in Peabody on Good Friday. Table of Greek pastries. Anchors Lydon and Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1984
Description: 1) Operation Rescue prepares for protest at St. Agatha's Church in Milton. Mildred Jefferson, Bill Baird. Pro-choice march outside church. 2) Cocaine abuse among white collar people. 3) Aflatoxin - liver carcinogen produced by fungus on drought-affected corn. 4) Interview with Rep. Frank Hynes and Sen. Michael Barrett on legislators earning outside income. 5) Felicia Lamport verse on John Tower's dilemma. Anchors Lydon and Fields.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1989
Description: Chris Lydon comments from Des Moines while traveling with Michael Dukakis on the early presidential campaign trail, anticipating the Iowa caucuses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/04/1987
Description: 1) Mary Kay Leonard of Office for Children says state will no longer place autistic students in BRI group homes because of controversial aversive therapy and recent death of a student. 2) State social workers have too heavy caseloads; they file bill to negotiate caseload limit in union contract. 3) Realtor Jean LeVaux testifies to Cambridge City Council in fight over rent control, residential exemption, condo conversion; Alice Wolf, Ken Reeves. 4) Interview with Stanley Hoffmann on upcoming Reagan Gorbachev summit. 5) Lack of affordable suburban housing makes subsidized duplexes and low-rises a necessity, and they are well accepted alternatives to conventional public housing projects; communities and development secretary Amy Anthony; examples of expensive Weston homes. Anchors Lydon and Vaillancourt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1985
Description: Labor Day special on vice presidential nomination of Geraldine Ferraro and her financial difficulties. Panelists Otile McManus, Martin Linsky, Lynda Connolly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/03/1984
Description: Clash between white and Hispanic residents in Lawrence. Gerald Ford visits Boston to endorse Elliot Richardson for Senate. Interview with film director James Ivory and actor Madeleine Potter on Henry James' “The Bostonians” starring Christopher Reeve and Vanessa Redgrave (clip). Artist Maggie Sherman's fanciful plaster face masks of residents of Montgomery, Vermont exhibited at Children's Museum. Anchors Lydon and Bennett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1984
Description: 1) Interview with Dr. Jean Mayer on world population growth policy and problems. Emphasizes need for contraception, and abortion when all else fails. 2) Will Lyman makes humorous appeal for Pledge-free August. 3) Brief on Chelsea Mayor James Mitchell recall petition. Anchors Lydon and Bennett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/08/1984
Description: Advocates for poor protest outside House Ways and Means chair Rep. Thomas Finneran's office against budget cuts; Reps. John McDonough, Stanley Rosenberg. Parcel 18 Ruggles Center in Roxbury to be occupied by Registry of Motor Vehicles; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Gov. William Weld, BRA executive director Stephen Coyle, Rev. Tony Bethel. Architect's scale model of City of Boston development in Coyle's office. Studio interview with Myron Weiner (MIT) and Kishore Mandhyan (BC) on assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and election violence in India. Young Boston children make fanciful, recycled art of objects from industrial surplus bins. Dr. Walter Drew of Institute for Self Active Education encourages this for its free-spirited creativity and joyous expression.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991
Description: 1) Interview on US relations with Libya; A.J. Meyer of Harvard calls Reagan's policy “unsophisticated and calamitous,” Khadaffy “unwholesome.” 2) Redistricting state Congressional map pits Barney Frank against Margaret Heckler; Reps. David Cohen, John Businger, Andrew Card. 3) Roxbury Highlands Neighborhood Association wants to restore abandoned buildings for housing and community center; Ben Haith. 4) Brief on Essex County officials Daniel Burke and Paul Gaudette sentenced under Ward Commission on corruption for accepting bribes. 5) Interview with Ellen Guiney of City-wide Education Coalition on Boston schools budget. 6) Urban interests neglected in federal budget, particularly low-income housing and job training programs; Rep. Shirley Chisholm. 7) Humorist Roy Blount, Jr. eats Wheaties and recites poem on grits. Anchor Lydon. William Pierce voiceover WGBH ID.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/10/1981