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...Cambridge real estate salesman's $10-100 million scheme to build a super-structure over one-sixth of the Charles River Basin stirred up bitter controversy at a City Council hearing yesterday...
...major opposition to Sullivan's plan, however, was rendered by Charles W. Greenough '19, Metropolitan District Commissioner, who claimed that the Commission "has the responsibility" to guard the public interest over the Basin, even though the land may be privately owned...
...twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able to blanket the Mediterranean basin, will replace the short-range broadcaster, but will not interfere with Rome's stations, as the old unit...
Spanish Romanesque paintings were executed between the 11th and 13th centuries, when Western European man was emerging from the dark ages toward the high noon of Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
Only fifteen men live in the Monastery at the present time. Each inhabits a monastic cell, a single room equipped with a cot, a spindly desk, one chair, a chest-of-drawers, a closet, and a lamp. There is a wash basin in one corner and a bathroom down the hall. The only adornment on the wall is a crucifix. Simple white curtains frame the window...