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...construction of the new Government Center, which has already claimed much of storied Scollay Square, will soon level several more victims into the forgotten wastes of eminent domain...
Councillor Daniel J. Hayes, rebounding from a decision that Cambridge cannot now legally seize the MTA Yards by the power of eminent domain, ordered that the City investigate the possibility of taking the property "for urban renewal" as soon at the MTA announces an intention to sell...
...Assembly, O'Hara is at his best in "The Cellar Domain," a portrait of the tight, status-conscious little world of Peter Durant's barber shop, and the tale of its destruction. Durant, the head barber, runs his miniature community with a social-register sense of propriety. Certain customers get preference over others, and some are told, when they begin to realize they are being ignored, "Better go down the street. You got a good barber down towards the rail-road station." Those who finally make the inner circle are fitted for the symbol of acceptance--a $2 beer...
Cambridge lacks the authority to take the Bennett St. MTA Yards by the eminent domain," the Cambridge City Manager told the City Council...
...Kaunda ordered his black followers to lay in stocks of food for a general strike should the draft prove unsatisfactory. Sir Roy fumed that he would "go the whole hog"-a hint of armed force-if Britain's terms appeared to endanger what he regards as his personal domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering; a London-bound BOAC Comet in mid-flight to stop in Salisbury and pick him up. Then he headed for the British capital in a last-ditch effort...