71.   Spadafora said the travel council is hoping to promote the town as more than a stop-over, but several town concerns have hindered growth and development.

72.   State Troopers Leslie Lord and Scott Phillips were respected in this town as much for their congeniality as for their authority, quicker to joke than to hassle.

73.   Stagg was known around town as a woman so disturbed she had once delivered her own baby by cutting her womb open with a penknife.

74.   Taxes on undeveloped ridge land in Meriden, designated by the town as excess land, are extremely low.

75.   The big names are already in town as the NAACP kicks off its annual convention this weekend.

76.   The company says it will promote the town as a tourist destination on its Web site, and it has offered several inducements, like computers for the schools.

77.   The column dealt with a bunch of fun-loving, adolescent pranksters who planted a bunch of bottle bombs around town as a gag.

78.   The experiences never caused him to scurry out of town as a free agent or demand a trade.

79.   The funds would go into a Cape-wide land bank, to be drawn on by the towns as needed to buy open space.

80.   The Nets were up against a team that had become as bright a development in this town as the chrome fender.