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...Cobb says that, with respect to the "larger community." Boston's hospitals already contain more in-patient beds than the entire New England region needs. "The Affiliated has more research space in relation to delivery of service than can be justified," said Cobb...
...larger number of beds for the hospitals represents a significant growth in the level of in-patient facilities: but Carl Cobb, health reporter for the Globe and Nieman Fellow at Harvard for 1969-70, maintains that most of the difference, if not all of it, between the present 90,000 ambulatory visits and the projected 135,000 will be devoted to maintaining the present level of ambulatory care...
...Mary Cobb Bugg, 37, an Atlanta mother of two and part-time antique dealer, is dismayed by the drug culture: This generation is getting as hung up on drugs as ours did on liquor. My mother used to scream at me not to use liquor, and I'll be doing the same with my children about drugs. There is no immorality in either one; the dangers are practical. People can get on these drug trips and not come back. I'm just scared to death of drugs, including marijuana, which might lead to addiction to harder things. Anyway...
...trouble isn't so much that these buildings are ugly in themselves: it's more that they ignore all but commercial considerations. Both towers are advertisements. The John Hancock Tower will be the taller and louder of the two. Designed by Henry Cobb of I.M. Pei and Partners, it is a sheer glass rhomboid from the sidewalk to the top of its 60th story...
...carrying the glass-and-steel tradition to this extreme Cobb actually parodies a skyscraper. Everyone at "Back Bay Boston: The City as A Work of Art" giggled when they came to the three-dimensional model of the tower and surrounding area. The Hancock Tower is funny because it's so totally out of scale with its surroundings. It will rise right behind H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church, south of Copley Square. And in the model it actually makes that forceful building with its space-carving Romanesque forms look squat and toad-like...