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Donald E. Pullman, a home-improvement contractor, is facing a herculean labor. In the dead of several nights, someone dumped some 8,000 worn-out automobile tires on his one-acre building lot in Herndon, Va., near the Fairfax-Loudoun county line. The authorities threatened Pullman with a jail sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Pullman's Lot | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Not only that, but even excluding temporary residents such as students. Cambridge is still the tenth most densely populated city in the country. The city's 20,000 persons per square mile--64.6 persons per acre--have made such problems as housing and crime especially difficult in an area that...

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley and Steven Reed, S | Title: Cambridge: More than Meets a Polaroid's Lens | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

By the time the Class of '76 graduates, at least two highrise buildings will tower over the Square. Over a million tourists a year will be visiting the Kennedy Library on the 11-acre MBTA site across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Streets still have been rerouted to handle new...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Future Shock | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

Contours of the Kennedy Center are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be given to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, called Commonwealth Plaza in appreciation of Massachusetts's grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Future Shock | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

About eight blocks from the Square, near William James Hall, an even taller building appears imminent. Harvard recently announced plans to build a 22-story tower and six four-story townhouses, for University affiliated families, on a wooded five-acre site known as the "Shady Hill Estate." Opposition to the...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Future Shock | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

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