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Built on a former garbage dump that thrusts into Boston Harbor, the Columbia Point Housing Project has never been an appealing place. The stark, institutional-style buildings and their occupants-now mostly impoverished blacks and Puerto Ricans, with a minority of white pensioners-are isolated both geographically and culturally from Boston proper. There are no private doctors in the project, and Boston City Hospital is a long bus ride away...
...because the village of Hannêche (pop. 300) has a rather tolerant government. Specifically, Mayor Edouard Elias and his town council had struck an agreement with a newly created Belgian disposal company named Vebeka. Elias got a seat on the company board and Vebeka got a license to dump wastes in the cavernous old factory; the town would get 55? per ton of the lethal garbage. Vebeka Chief Adrianus Van den Bogert, a Dutch citizen, told the villagers: "There isn't any danger at all, believe me. I have experience in these things...
Belgium has plenty of laws designed to protect citizens from buying toxic products but none to control the disposal of toxic wastes. Van den Bogert and other entrepreneurs openly and legally took advantage of the situation to turn Belgium into Europe's dump. Belgium even made a profit from all the business-confirmation of Premier Gaston Eyskens' maxim that "prosperity is more important than the quality of life...
AFTER THREE YEARS of dodging dump trucks, cranes, and cement minors, after being constantly forced into Quincy Street on the way to William James or the Bio labs. Harvard students can be happy that Gund Hall is finally finished. The dedication festivities tonight provide in occasion for members of the architectural jet set, GSD faculty, and old alumni to engage in cocktail conversation about the beauties of the Building, Very late Friday night the Janitors will sweep away the last remains of the ceremonies and the GSD students can finally settle down to working in Gund Hall...
Midway through the fourth quarter, with Tuffs threatening, the Crimson defense shut down the Jumbos on a fourth-and-three situation at the Harvard 19 yard line to prevent Tufts from typing up the contest. Defensive end Pete Mee broke through the Jumbo offensive line to dump Byrn for a ten yard loss that snuffed out the Tufts attack...