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Lowell Superintendent Jay Coveney this week posted notices in each Lowell entryway notifying students that Harvard-NYNEX/Fujitsu representatives have already begun work on rewiring their telephone lines. With the new Lines, Lowell residents will have telephone line access to a High Speed Data Network (HSDN), which will allow students to contact University modems, computers and voice-mail systems...
...avoid the construction the postal carrier will now enter I Lowell at C entry, which has no seat holds and then move through the tunnels to the rest of the House Lowell Crew Chief James W. Coveney said yesterday...
...whole operation is masterminded by J. J. Coveney, the superintendant, who directs the care of the machines and chooses the sweeping routes each night. Coveney, a soft spoken man who oversees the job in a pin striped suit and vest, was born and raised in Cambridge. Eight years ago he was one of a group that inaugurated the night sweeping plan. Since then, he has been coming down to the Yard on Hampshire Street to send the men out and keep track of their progress. There is a kind of camaraderie between the boss and the driving trio; they think...
...Some of Coveney's enthusiasm for his work has rubbed off on the drivers who apparently aim at sweeping perfection. "If it weren't for parked cars," one of them remarked, "we could simonize this city." Weaving in and out of spaces between cars naturally keeps the speed down, though with the brushes raised on a straight away the machine can make a disjointed twenty miles an hour that looks like sixty. "But its better to drive slowly," one of the drivers said. "It takes a little longer but you pick up everything. Besides," he added, carefully shifting the sweeper...
Cambridge has a good sweeping system, but for sheer trash Coveney thinks New York is ideal. Being long and thin, Manhattan island is a natural for a fine storm sewer system. In Cambridge, sewers are a mere six feet across. But New York sewers, according to Coveney, are beauties more than twice as wide--although he admits he doesn't get much chance to see them when he's there on vacation...