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Harvard students may not show much concern for uprooted trees in the Yard, but a group of 30 Cambridge residents is out to save a 203-year old beech tree on Massachusetts Ave. from the bulldozer's path...
Calling themselves the Friends of the Beech Tree, the Cantabrigians have petitioned city officials to prevent a local builder from destroying the rare tree to make way for a new office building between Harvard and Central Squares...
Earlier this month, the Cambridge Historical Commission recommended that the Copper Beech tree, located across from the Orson Welles Cinema, be declared a significant landmark in the area. A final decision rests with the Cambridge City Council...
Meanwhile, Harold Jones, the senior fire officer in charge of the 19-member fire-fighting crew, was trying desperately to clear the area. "I kept yelling 'Go! Get out out of the way!' " he said. Jones instructed two of his men, Brian Wilson, 38, and Ronald Beech, 51, to don safety gear and board the Boeing 737 to aid the frenetic evacuation. The firemen had just entered through the door over the right wing when the jet's rear was rattled by an explosion, perhaps caused by the ignition of the oxygen tanks that supply the plane's emergency masks...
Nestlé has long had a keen appetite for U.S. companies. In a buying binge during the '70s, the Swiss food conglomerate helped itself to Beech-Nut (baby foods), Libby, McNeill & Libby (fruit juices) and Stouffer (hotels and frozen dinners). But Nestlé then decided to halt its U.S. expansion because of heavy financial losses suffered in Argentina...