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...many decades since that vision was projected, there have been some--there have been basically two types of strategies. One was that we should stand more or less as a beacon and an example--a more passive form--of demonstrating to the world one form of development and hopefully the form of development that they would emulate in due course...
...routine call for the Beacon Ambulance Service of Fort Lauderdale. No sirens, no red lights, just an old man dead on arrival at the Florida hos pital. The autopsy revealed "peritonitis, secondary to acute gangrenous appendicitis, ruptured." Only an uncommonly tough character could have endured such pain so long and without any relief through drugs or antibiotics. Indeed, the manner of Joe Martin's departure from life was entirely consistent with the way in which he had always conducted it. The former Republican Speaker of the House, dead last week at the age of 83, had never had much...
...Hill resent his quick rise to power, his avoidance of the state Party, and his identification with the Yankees rather than the Irish. Ted would naturally seem able to use his influence as a U.S. Senator to help get the Library built. In fact he has no influence on Beacon Hill...
...even with all this help, the Library Corporation has bungled the job. The reason is that it has tried to keep the issue apolitical. No single representative at the State House is pushing the bill. Like other legislators, the men on Beacon Hill play the quid-pro-quo game. The Kennedy Library has little to offer anyone, so it gets no favors in return...
...which is the cement which holds the whole project together isn't finished yet. With pedestrian underpasses going through, a plaza with trees, walks, benches, etc., one will be able to see clearly the cencept which I.M. Pei developed for the Government Center. It will provide some continuity between Beacon Hill--the State House and the red-brick sidewalks -- down through Scollay Square, to Dock Square, and ultimately to the waterfront which is also to be renewed...