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...Beacon Construction Company, owner of the property, first contemplated construction in the summer of 1964. Nothing happened during the summer, but the next fall the architect said that construction would begin before the summer of 1965. The Amoco station and another firm. Avis Rent-A-Car have remained on the site on a month-to-month basis, not knowing when they would be forced to leave...
...series of recent reports, the state government has shown great concern for improving the institutional network of state supported schools. But the reorganization of public education recommended by the Willis committee and the racial balancing suggested by the Kiernan report still require financial support. Encouragement of reform from Beacon Hill will mean little if the legislature is unwilling to underwrite the expense of improvement. Public school buildings are deteriorating and teacher salaries, particularly in the western parts of the state, are far below the scale of states with comparable per capita incomes...
...about the same frequency, UHF broadcasts could eventually be detected as far off as 200 light years from earth. Each UHF station, says Oliver, sends out its signal in a thin, disklike pattern tangent to the earth. As the earth rotates, that disk sweeps the universe like a giant beacon, eventually carrying its UHF transmission past stars and planets many light years away...
...battlefield in their war stretched from the kite-shaped six acre plot where they live, to the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Boston, to Beacon Hill and the corridors of power in Washington, and to the paddy wagon and the jail cell...
...wears a different cloak at Christmas. Not new, certainly, for if ever New Boston is forgotten, it is now, but different somehow. The Maiden Aunt of American Cities takes out her warm old familiar garment, primps her grey hair, and marches defiantly into the cold. She tramps down from Beacon Hill, shops in one of the gaudy New Boston stores and many of the old smaller ones, then just as quietly slips back through the park, leaving cries of crass commercialism to others. So familiar is her path, so unobtrusive, that you may not have noticed her. Your Christmas...