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Once the digging began, new problems and complaints arose. Since Back Bay is all built on land that was reclaimed last century from the Charles River Basin-really a swamp filled with sand and gravel-digging into the unstable soil disrupted nearby areas. Streets and sidewalks rose and fell, sometimes as much as six feet, pinching and twisting telephone, electric and gas lines. Several water mains broke. As a result, the city and local utilities are suing Hancock for some...
...Agde, one of seven resort centers being developed along the "new Riviera" between Marseille and the Spanish border. The Fountainebleau of the bare set is Port Ambonne, a year-old, $4,000,000 complex on the Cap d'Agde, which has its own yacht basin and supermarket for nudists. Families have paid up to $26,000 for two-or three-room condominiums in an amphitheater-shaped apartment tower that curves around a nude-swimming pool. So far this year, some 25,000 nudists, about half of them foreigners, have visited the complex for a few carefree days of freedom...
This was the 42nd acquisition that Amfac has made in just four years, using securities or cash to expand from the middle of the Pacific basin to the West Coast, through the Southwest and to the Atlantic. Since Walker became chief in 1967, the company's revenues have almost quadrupled, to $578 million; they are expected to top the $1 billion mark by 1974. Last week Walker reported that profits in the past six months climbed another 28%, to $10.3 million...
...effort to prevent that, Fradier hopes to excavate 1,000 acres of ruins. The Punic port at nearby Salambo (from which the Carthaginian navy controlled the Mediterranean) would be returned to its historical appearance and would double as a yacht basin. In Carthage itself, a Roman theater would be refurbished to serve for modern dramas. Statuary would be restored, as would the baths of Antoninus...
Whatever the outcome, it appears that Saturday's race will be memorable. Race time is 11:15 a.m. for the varsity. JV and freshmen race at 10:45 and 10:15 a.m., respectively. Action takes place on the Charles River Basin...