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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Preston Pollock recognizes the paradox inherent in "New Boston." "The Christian Science Center is a combination of pompousass architecture and corporate necessity," snaps Pollack, an architect at Professional Designs Incorporated. The Christian Science Church and its world headquarters, Boston's answer to the Vatican, focus the contradiction between collective needs and private purpose: a corporate monument rising symbolically above the decaying tenements of the poor and turning its back on the human needs of urban working people unable to buy a decent human environment. Pollock is an architect who must deal with contradictions like that--his firm is employed...
STREET VENDORS and musicians have been an integral part of Harvard Square's atmosphere for many years. The University's banning of them from Forbes Plaza in front of Holyoke Center should be reversed because it unnecessarily hurts the business of the vendors and musicians, and detracts from the Square's unique character...
...University temporarily passed the ban in 1975, and earlier this year decided to make it permanent, citing several reasons for the action. Two years ago the University said that the expected increase in foot traffic caused by the location of the Cambridge Bicentennial Office in Holyoke Center required the ban. But the office is no longer there, and the claim that subway construction slated to start this spring will create congestion in the area is dubious, as there is no reliable way of predicting what effect the underground construction will have...
Apparently, the main impetus for the University's decision was the steady stream of complaints from its Holyoke Center tenants, primarily The Crimson Shop. Before the original ban was passed, The Crimson Shop made almost daily complaints about the presence of vendors and musicians in Forbes Plaza...
KINSHASA, ZAIRE-Invading Katangian forces in Zaire's Shaba province are about 50 miles west of Kilwezi, a major copper mining center, and have made no new moves in the last few days. Reports indicate that the Katangian troops are trying to set up a civil administration in the occupied territories...