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...Kenmore station was flooded under eight feet of water and service to Newton, Brookline, Watertown and Brighton has been paralyzed since Saturday. MTA officials hope to have the four rapid transit lines back in operation by tomorrow, and in the interim have put emergency Lus service into operation in the affected area...
Turnpike Authority plans also call for breakdown trucking terminal at the Cambridge St. exit in the old Brighton railroad yards. Massachusetts law prohibits diesel cabs from having any more than one trailer except on the Turnpike...
...Brighton, Mass...
Graham Greene discovered in Brighton Rock (1938) that a thriller's format and a dose of Krafft-Ebing can lure usually unreflective readers into a brush with the profound issues of guilt and redemption. To a steady procession of writers-all of them willing to be thought deep-the formula has seemed good enough to copy. The latest imitator, and one of the ablest, is Anthony Bloomfield, novelist and BBC scriptwriter. His imitation is not slavish, since his weighing-up produces rather different totals than the master's. But setting, characters, mood and action are all attentively derivative...
...other question with which the conferences significantly did not deal is that of Britain's entrance into the Common Market. Both parties, in fact, appear to think that the electorate couldn't care less about the Common Market. At Brighton, Mr. Macmillan mentioned neither that the Government had been shockingly hesitant and inconsistent about applying for membership in the E.E.C. nor even that Britain could not join without sacrificing to some degree Commonwealth relations. At Blackpool, Labour refused to come to any decision at all; resolutions for and against were tabled rapidly, and there...