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Daley's Chicago worked for those who like to drive, and for the building contractors who profit from expressway construction. But it didn't work for the ethnic neighborhoods uprooted by his pet projects. Hizzoner didn't have much sympathy for citizens who prefer public transportation--a mess in the city...
...game that Harvard deserved to win. The Crimson outplayed the visitors for the most part as the defense, with Jon Schuster and Jackie Hughes leading the way, created roadblocks in front of Brian Petrovek (16 saves) that will surely rival those on the Southeastern Expressway this morning...
Decadence, however, has its points--flight from gesundheit is as easy as a trip down Soldier's Field Road to Sammy White's for tenpin or candlepin bowling. The best of all, if you want to travel and have a car, is Boston Bowl down the Southeast expressway--open 24 hours and, we're told, something out of a George V. Higgins' novel...
...module theory of the modern stadium: the physical analog to the wide franchises and slick operations of the new corporate baseball. This is a neighborhood park--no gargantuan concrete egg laid in the center of a vast parkingscape, slabs for seats, plastic astrograss, and conveniently adjacent to the suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe with a sad history--a lot of Red Sox clubs winning hearts and losing still; heros now dead or in the insurance business. Fenway is outmoded and wonderful, decaying like baseball itself is decaying: slowly shedding off its crowds, its glamour, and its primacy...
...moment of reflection, the house decided to recall 60 of the bills for separate consideration. But seemingly lost in the stampede were bills dealing with such issues as a crosstown expressway for Chicago, a new election code and no-fault divorce. When one freshman senator objected to the legislature's methods, he was advised by Charles Chew, a black senator from Chicago who happens to be bald: "Boy, you take this thing too seriously. When I first came down here, I was white and had hair...