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...find space for about 600 extra students this year, and placed 200 in buildings on Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street...
Five years ago, when Boston Policeman John O'Brien was rounding the corner of Brighton's Commonwealth Avenue and Washington Street at 10 m.p.h. in broad daylight, he lost control of his police car and struck an elderly woman named Bridget Neville. Six months in the hospital and $32,000 in medical bills later, Neville, now 83, won a belated jury award of $103,253. Fair enough...
...building will sit next to anothe parcel of land on the MBTA yard site, which the Commonwealth has opened up for bidding by private development firms. A committee chaired by State Rep. Thomas H.D. Mahoney is currently considering three proposals for the land, and will probably reach a decision this fall...
...most cities from several directions, but all the major cables connecting Con Ed to other pools of electric power run in a single corridor from the north. Last week a storm apparently knocked out all eight of these lines within an hour. Says an executive of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison: "If a major line goes out here, we can interchange a lot more easily and flexibly." One reason for the difference: Commonwealth Edison can more readily obtain right-of-way for power lines in Midwestern farmlands than can Con Ed in the crowded Eastern Megalopolis...
...Uganda in turmoil? There was reason for skepticism. Only two weeks earlier, after all, Big Daddy had merrily hoaxed 33 national representatives at the Commonwealth Conference in London. First it was announced that he was flying in to a meeting to which he had been expressly disinvited by Prime Minister James Callaghan. Then came stories that his plane was circling Europe in search of a proper landing spot. Finally the truth, he had never left Uganda at all. Amin, apparently, is still in a joking mood. After rumors built up for two days, a New York radio reporter managed...