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...hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion to put a man on the moon), the budget bristles with insights into the nation's mood. In fiscal 1967, the U.S. will spend $820,000 on training, counseling, and other projects to improve the estate of the 26.5 million women in the labor...
...grande dame is there, and to have missed her would be to miss one of Boston's most charming moods. It's an anachronism that somehow works, a reversion that is delightful rather than reactionary. It is perhaps the only mood in which the Dickensian Charles Basin skyline is more impressive than the tall, sterile Prudential. That Dickens touch is, actually, the keynote to Boston's Christmas. Inexplicably one expects to hear "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" instead of "Jingle Bells...
...with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving-wench (Joan Diener), whom he views as his dream virgin, Dulcinea...
...problem with MDC Commissioner Howard Whit-more. They have decided to put a spotlight on the footbridge that crosses Storrow Drive, to examine the present lighting of Weeks Bridge, and to install, on the north side of the river, an emergency telephone, with a direct line to the Basin station of the MDC Police...
...University Policeman assigned to patrol in front of Leverett and Dunster Houses will continue to do so. The MDC's Basin and Brighton stations -- which have jurisdiction over the bridge and its approaches -- will have patrol cars stop at the Weeks Bridge every half hour and check in from an emergency call box that is to be installed in the middle of the bridge...