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...conference championship game, Goldberg had another morale booster up his sleeve. Since his company had a contract to demolish a twelve-story building in Denver's downtown, Goldberg had the three-ton ball on his wrecking crane painted orange and hung a sign on the side of the building with OAKLAND painted in huge letters on it. A crowd of hundreds gathered to watch and cheer the destruction. The darker side: when a man walked into a bar and turned on the jukebox during a televised Bronco game, he got into a frenzied argument with irate fans, one of them...
Thomas Danehy, an Independent councilor, has received his own vote and that of long-time Cambridge pol Walter J. Sullivan on each ballot. Kevin P. Crane, another Independent, has voted "present" on almost all the ballots, while Lawrence Frisoli, scion of a powerful local family, seems to be voting at random. And the inimitable Vellucci keeps voting for himself...
Boston City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara '71 will run for the Democratic nomination for State Treasurer against incumbent Robert Q. Crane, DiCara said yesterday...
DiCara believes the upcoming campaign will be the "classic political contest." It will be a contest between "different generations and different attitudes," he said. The average age of DiCara's campaign staff will be in the mid-20s, he said Crane has been State Treasurer for 14 years...
...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...