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...Beacon Hill, are shady and civilized, block after block of stately 19th century town houses. The symphony and principal museum are among the world's best. Fine colleges help make the city an enormous intellectual hot tub, at once invigorating and smug. Now Boston's boosters can brag about more than old-shoe gentility: over the past decade a decrepit waterfront district has been intelligently transformed into a swank commercial and residential quarter whose centerpiece, the Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market showplace, draws natives and tourists by the millions. At the other end of downtown, $400 million is going...
...tribesters brag in their promo literature that by living communally in Somerville, while working to revive the spirit of an earlier era they "are a lesson not only in ensemble performing but also in cohabitation." The sheer energy of the show indicates that they have worked hard to merge their personalities and lifestyles with those of the characters they play--a 24-hour-a-day pysche-up technique. And because they generally succeed, one is tempted to forgive their self-conscious stab at hippydom, as well as the program notes urging the audience to "stand up and join in confronting...
...Svahn: "Most people have never understood how the system works. The dilemma the Government faces is finding a way to keep the commitments it has made to the people." Neil MacNeil, who has covered Congress for TIME for 24 years, remembers all too well the way Congressmen used to brag about how they once honored those commitments. But political cynicism aside, TIME's correspondents had all the help they needed to put this important story about human needs and governmental inadequacies in focus. "In nearly every instance," says Los Angeles Reporter Cheryl Crooks, "the issue drew impassioned responses from...
...great majority of AT&T shareholders are small investors. Only 139,038 people and organizations own more than 600 shares each, while 938,457 have fewer than 20 each. Impresario Billy Rose once owned 80,000 shares of Telephone worth $11.2 million and liked to brag that he was the company's largest single shareholder. Today the largest block of stock is controlled by the College Retirement Equities Fund, a pension plan for teachers, which has 7.2 million shares worth $423 million...
Most circuses brag that they are the biggest shows on earth and try to prove it with three rings, regiments of acrobats, aerialists and clowns and a whole zoo full of pacing lions, dancing dogs, prancing horses and playful elephants...