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Officials from Perini the MBTA, the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industry and the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) are independently trying to determine what caused the crane to turn over...
John H Kelly Jr., project superintendant for the Perini Corporation, was killed when a small crane overturned, hitting him on the head with its boom...
...available to Libary of America editions. Many texts have been purged of errors that crept into them over years of reprintings. Some have grown. One research team found and restored 36,000 words excised from the manuscript of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie; a forthcoming edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage adds 5,000 words that were cut before publication. When the Library of America. gets around to Crane (spring 1984) and Dreiser, editors will have to decide whether such additions constitute improvements...
...wrecking ball was brought in. To attack those sturdy pillars, it was fitted out with protruding steel blades. It succeeded in knocking down two walls but lost its blades and snapped a cable in the process. At one point, falling debris pushed the ball into the crane boom and banged up the cab. The Mobile Press headline: HERO HOUSE CAPITULATES TO STEEL BALL. But not without a fight...
...friend-her parents were a gift from former President Gerald R. Ford during Hirohito's state visit to the U.S. in 1975. But Japan's most famous young bird seemed unimpressed with her imperial visitor. Hoping to change the fowl's nonchalance, Hirohito studied the crane avidly, then moved in to try his hand at feeding. Still no recognition, but the Emperor was not about to create a flap. For the 80-year-old Hirohito, the bird's mere existence may carry more import than her aloof manners. In Japanese culture, the crane is a symbol...