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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional liberal-conservative split on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee between members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and independents may be threatened by a third slate this fall. Daniel Crane, a local lawyer and son of the kite Edward Crane, long-time Cambridge mayor, has said that he may run for the 9-member governing body under a moderate pro business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Bitties | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

Opponents vow to fight the plan in Congress, which must approve the sale. Chairman Hays Watkins of rival CSX promises that the sale "will be resisted by every resource at our command and in every forum where the challenge can be brought." Conrail Chairman L. Stanley Crane, a retired president of Southern Railway who took over in 1981, opposes the sale to any of the bidders because he thinks the asking price is too low. He wants instead to sell the company through a public stock offering. Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania agrees with that plan because it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railyard Rumbles | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Rorem's new oratorio, based on texts by Poe, Longfellow, Twain, Crane, Melville, Whitman, Emma Lazarus and Sidney Lanier, is one of four premieres this season for the prolific composer, and it too treads familiar ground. Best known for his art songs and his candid, elegantly written diaries recounting his life and loves in Paris, New York and elsewhere, the composer, 61, has long been a conservative voice in American music. He speaks in a basically breezy 1940s tonality, which is leavened by a few more recent technical advances. In An American Oratorio, Rorem's style works effectively with gentle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where the New Action Is | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...zone is the huge Cabrini-Green public housing project, a cluster of decaying high-rises on the near west side. Says an elderly woman who lives at the project: "They've all got guns or knives, and they act like they own the place." Not far away, at Crane High School, a large majority of the boys are said to be gang members or affiliates. "I'm scared all the time," says one girl, a junior at Crane. "Last year a boy standing right next to me in the hall was shot by another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City That No Longer Works | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...took a job as a production worker at the Naval Weapons Support Center in nearby Crane, Ind., and rose to quality-control specialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: High Spirits on a Plastic Pulse | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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