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...said tickets sales have been going"moderately well," and that several hundred havebeen sold at Holyoke Center. Tickets have alsobeen sold by professional distributors throughoutthe Boston area, he said...
...addition, community activists have argued that the proposed hotel would increase traffic in Harvard Square area and destroy the character of the area's neighborhoods. A downzoning petition currently before the City Council would halt that project by severly limiting the maximum height and floor area of buildings in the area...
...lined boulevards, the murmur of nannies cooing into baby carriages and gardeners snipping the gardenias is drowned out by earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth so much less than the land underneath them. Palatial homes whose scale is limited only by the owners' taste and imagination are rising in their place. Typically, the latter far exceeds the former...
...Cobb County, Ga., police have reviewed accounts of child abuse for a two- year period and found that reports as much as double in the three days after school grades are issued. Many experts find that the problem intensifies toward the end of the academic year. Observes Rosalyn Oreskovich, area manager of children's protective services in Seattle: "From March to the end of June, our referral rate will rise dramatically. By spring, the parents' frustration has really built...
Another gap in shuttle service exists for students going across the river for practice. There are no buses that go down to the athletic area in the afternoon; in the evening, buses return at 45-minute intervals. The large number of varsity and intramural athletes crossing the river every day should prompt bus service to the athletic facilities...