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...Boston Lying-in, Peter Bent Brigham and Robert Breck Brigham Hospitals--was to be primarily a research institution rather than an outpatient hospital that could service the community. Secondly, they discovered that Harvard owned a large, uninhabited plot of land in the area. Formerly the site of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the land was now a ten-acre parking lot and was actually larger than the RTH neighborhood. Harvard's explanation for wanting to build on the inhabited land was that the Convent site was "not convenient." Thirdly, a 1965 "master plan" for the hospitals center showed that...
Harvard's original plans called for construction on only part of the 10-acre site formerly occupied by the Convent of the Good Shepherd, which is now a parking lot, Moulton said yesterday...
Offstage Springsteen's lyric virtuosity reduced to a mumble in hip, tough dude tones. "We had a bathroom with a big gaping hole in it that looked right out into this convent. I used to tell kids that during the war an airplane crashed into it. To save face, y'know?" Thus he describes the Freehold, N.J., home where he was born in 1949. Home life was not easy, and when his folks went West prospecting for better jobs, Springsteen remained behind. At 16 he was commuting to Greenwich Village to play guitar in cafes. Self-taught, Springsteen...
...person of his lissome granddaughter Princess Caroline of Monaco, 17. That was roughly the plot the Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week in a story that said Prince Charles of England, 25, was swept off his feet by Caroline. The pair got together presumably last year when she attended a convent school near Windsor Castle. The problems were even more alluring. As head of the Church of England, Charles can only marry an Anglican. Would he renounce his throne for Roman Catholic Caroline? Or would she be converted? The answer from Buckingham Palace and Monaco's royal palace was unanimous...
...younger priests and bishops are now more in sympathy with the workers than with the government. The censored press, which has generally downplayed the unrest, felt called upon to note the fact that the Guardia Civil had discovered eight dynamite cartridges and "a mass of subversive literature" at a convent in Vallaro...