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Cambridge did not move to create the historical area until Sullivan, a Cambridge real-estate developer, attempted last year to construct a high-rise office building on stilts on a corner of the Common directly across from Harvard Yard. The University joined with several other groups to oppose Sullivan, because his proposed building would ruin the historic and aesthetic nature of the Common...
...political gain nor as a psychological gesture is Christmas Island to grow mushrooms. The September series has supplied the Soviet Union with sufficient data so that further Russian tests may conceivably develop operationally effective new weapons. Kennedy released previously undisclosed information that the U.S. needs atmospheric tests primarily to construct an anti-missile screen capable of dealing with such weapons...
...negotiations between the University and the MTA will have much meaning unless the crucial question of taxation can be solved. If Harvard does buy the MTA Yards, the land will remain exempt from Cambridge property taxes. And although the University has offered several times to construct taxable commercial structures on half the property, sensible agreement has been hindered by a lack of mutual trust...
From descriptions by Valerie and a witness who remembered seeing an erratic driver the morning after the murder, police were able to construct likenesses of the murderer from an Identi-Kit.* Among the suspects identified was a man named James Ryan. Checking this lead, Scotland Yard found a traveling salesman in Ireland who reported that he had written some postcards to England for a near illiterate acquaintance named Jimmy Ryan. One card in particular had seemed odd; it was addressed to a Mrs. Mary Hanratty, and it began: "Dear...
Judah Stampfer, an assistant professor of English at New York State University, who should know better, has written a grievously long short-story entitled Jonah. Stampfer clearly understands how to construct English sentences; he does not, however, know when to stop. Nor does he comprehend the least thing about plotting a story...