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...Brace yourselves, it's Dartmouth Weekend...
...week later, though, much had changed. The businesses along Boylston St. were up in arms; if the proposal went through, they would--brace yourself--have to get new stationery. As a result of their anguished protests, the council has temporarily backed off, scheduling a hearing. At that time, the businesses, which grow rich in their prominent location, should agree that a new box of envelopes is not too high a price to pay in honor of Kennedy. And the council should give in only so far as to allow a two-month phase-in period, during which a sign would...
While MATEP opponents are beginning to brace themselves for the day, there is still a considerable amount of work needed before the first diesel fumes rise up the 315-foot smokestack. The November DEQE approval of the engines contained 32 operating conditions, many of which require the submission of plans concerning the testing and running of the diesels. Installation of a monitoring system designed to measure nitrous oxide levels in the surrounding community also is part of the explicit operating conditions. Nevertheless, officials believe the first diesel could be ready for testing by the end of the year. MATEP will...
...guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan) as technologically dubious and ridiculously expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White House not to station the MX in Utah and Nevada. Then a brace of hawkish Republicans, Senators Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn of Utah, marched into the Pentagon with their own panicky manifesto denouncing the Air Force's plan to put MX in their states. Next Congress's Office of Technology Assessment chimed in with a careful report that found...
SHADOW MAN: THE LIFE OF DASHIELL HAMMETT by Richard Layman Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 285 pages...