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...under fire in December because of his (and his wife's) bumbling attempts to solve the Viet Nam crisis. Fanfani forced Moro to resign in January by talking some of Moro's (and his) fellow Christian Democrats into voting down a trivial nursery-school bill in the Chamber of Deputies. Fanfani wanted more than to just get back into the Cabinet. He wanted Moro out. So he persuaded the right wing of the Christian Democrats to insist on the inclusion of their leader, ex-Premier Mario Scelba, in any new Cabinet. Why? Because, naturally, as a bitter...
...almost completed a 20-year, $105 million project to eliminate pollution from Boston Harbor and the overflow pollution of the Charles River. The MDC has replaced the interceptors with huge new sewers which will prevent all sudden overflows into the river. Sewage will be carried to an underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel, as it does now, and be treated at the Deer Island sewage plant in Boston Harbor. Until...
...construction of the storm water chlorination chamber might not have been necessary if another project "to do something" with the river had been successful. The Charles was originally a tidal river; twice a day it overflowed its banks from Boston to Watertown, covering marshland, and twice a day it shrank leaving ugly mud flats...
...storm water chlorination chamber will end this problem, but another threat--flooding--will still exist unless another project is undertaken. But because of the state's financial crisis, no action has been taken in the year since the MDC proposed a pumping station and a new dam near North Station. The existing dam has no pumps and operates on a gravity principle, which means that when tides are unusually high the dam cannot be opened to discharge excess river water for fear of a back-rush of salt water. During a heavy storm, when tides are high and the river...
Crane also suggested that DeGuglielmo approach Harvard, M.I.T., and the Chamber of Commerce for additional cash contributions for the hospital...