Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...story, unfortunately, is universal: the gradual erosion of a natural setting by urban sprawl. Starting in the spring of 1953, with barefoot farm children in a burgeoning countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately, in the fall of 1972, to those hallmarks of Western civilization, the discount store and the parking meter. Yet Müller never stoops to cheap nostalgia or self-righteous despair. Each page is keyed to a child's comprehension; each of the meticulous landscapes shows compassion...
...Kevin P. Crane '73, the son of former Mayor Edward Crane '35, was in third place, four votes behind Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who had 1795. Crane's votes were spread somewhat evenly throughout all of Cambridge's eleven wards, while Vellucci's were concentrated mostly in ward one, East Cambridge...
...Crane supports vacancy rent decontrol. He says the purpose of rent control is to protect "low and middle income people, and elderly residents, who do not move around." Vacancy decontrol will not hurt these tenants, Crane says, but it will free up other apartments so that landlords can charge a fairer rent. These other apartments are now occupied by young professional people, "who can pay a fair market price," he says...
Next to Malcolm Lowry, even such notorious literary flameouts as Scott Fitzgerald and Stephen Crane seem like models of mental health. During his 48 years, Lowry wrote one extraordinary novel, Under the Volcano (1947), and spent nearly every other waking hour looking for ways to destroy himself. His search for oblivion was as successful as it was arduous. Though born to a well-off British family, Lowry was penniless ^nd drunk for most of his adulthood. He did time in jail and in mental wards; he was down and out in Mexico, New York, Hollywood and British Columbia. Even...