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...Electronics Corporation of America (ECA), located on Memorial Drive near MIT, has been contemplating the move to escape Cambridge's high taxes and to consolidate its operations since January. ECA presently has a large manufacturing plant in New Hampshire...
Relations between the two had been strained before Friday's meeting. The city took ECA to court when the company's executives failed to answer a rarely used council subpoena and had threatened to rezone the company's building to allow only low and moderate-income housing in it. The restriction would have made it difficult for ECA to sell the building by limiting the number of potential buyers...
...MAIAS, by Eca de Queiroz. A minor language is a cloak of invisibility for the man who writes in it. The greatness of Eca de Queiroz (1845-1900), for example, has been almost completely concealed from the English-reading world by the mere fact that he wrote in Portuguese. Happily, the cloak is now removed by this handsome translation of a massive satire that anatomized Portugal's pathetic aristocracy and stands today, against any standards, as a major 19th century novel...
...then chief administrative officer of NRA; 1940-41, executive in the Office of Production Management; 1941-42, Lend-Lease expediter in London with rank of minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving ECA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security; 1955-58, Governor of New York; 1961, Ambassador-at-Large; 1961-63, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, led the U.S. delegation to the Laos truce talks in Geneva; 1963-, Under Secretary...
...Father Amaro, by Eca de Queiroz. Published in 1874 but now available in the U.S. for the first time, this early novel by Portugal's greatest writer of prose is a chilling and corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s...