Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word in Cambridge was "build"--high rises, university towers, hotels, offices, anything--and get them up as quickly as possible without protest. And the man most responsible for that legacy of development, as most Cantabridgians will tell you today, is Edward A. Crane...
...Eddie Crane, poor son of a Cambridge cop, Harvard magna cum laude, city councilor for almost 30 years, was a power broker for as long as most Cambridge political experts can recall...
...from of government, Plan E--a good government instrument that attempts to separate city administration from politics by hiring a city manager to make up the budget and execute business--in 1939, few would have predicted that it would cause a vacuum of leadership that only a boss like Crane could fill...
What should be done? One suggestion in Congress is to turn the Postal Service completely over to private enterprise, making it either a regulated monopoly, like the telephone industry, or setting up several competing postal systems. Illinois Representative Philip Crane has even introduced a bill to end the Government monopoly of first-class mail and open it up to private competition. Such systems might work in heavily populated areas, but there would be no profit in serving the rest of the country. Congress would then have to provide big subsidies to serve less populated areas or allow the private postal...
After 22 years of "temporary" truce, the Demilitarized Zone that partitions Korea has become, among other things, a bird sanctuary. The gigantic white-plumed Manchurian crane, an exotic type of which only 30 specimens are known to exist, now winters in the barbed-wire-lined...